Park Avenue Hotel
Anonymous, American, 19th century American
Architect John Kellum American
Not on view
This eight-story building with corner towers stood on Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue) between 32nd and 33rd Street. Designed by architect John Kellum in a Second Empire Baroque style, and built of brick with decorative cast iron cladding, the building was financed by A. T. Stewart who owned the city's largest department store. He intended for the new hotel to provide a safe residence for single women moving to New York to find work. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women opened in April 1878 but its strict house rules proved unpopular and within a month it had closed and soon reopened as the luxurious Park Avenue Hotel.