page_title: Ferdinand P. Earle
section_title: Hotel proprietor
hierarchical_section_title: Ferdinand P. Earle / Hotel proprietor
caption_attribution_description: English: Hotel New Netherland, in New York City, renamed Hotel Netherland in 1908. Architect William Hume.
context_page_description: Ferdinand Pinney Earle was a US military officer and hotel proprietor.
context_section_description: After Earle completed his education, he came to New York and soon associated himself with his father, who had been proprietor of the Clinton House in Hartford, but had moved to New York and was then the proprietor of Earle's Hotel at Centre and Canal Streets, and in the course of a few years he succeeded his father as proprietor of this property. Afterward he established the Hotel Normandie at Broadway and 38th Street, and Normandie-by-the-Sea, a large summer hotel at Sea Bright, New Jersey. For a short time he was also manager of the Hotel Netherland, which was built for Earle by William Waldorf Astor.
caption: Hotel Netherland
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