New York Hotel | |
Location | 42 Post Office Pl., Salt Lake City, Utah |
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Coordinates | 40°45′42″N 111°53′31″W / 40.76167°N 111.89194°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1906 |
Architect | Kletting,Richard K.A. |
NRHP reference No. | 80003933[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 10, 1980 |
The New York Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, at 42 Post Office Pl., was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
It was a work of leading Salt Lake City architect Richard K.A. Kletting.[2]
It is a three-story brick building designed to have shops on the ground floor and 62 hotel rooms above. Some hotel room suites had bathrooms; there were also single rooms served by a bathroom on each floor. It was "completely modern" in 1906, having both steam heat and electric lights.[2]
The building is 49 feet (15 m) tall; the first/second/third floors are 14 feet (4.3 m), 10 feet (3.0 m), and 10.5 feet (3.2 m) tall, respectively.[2]
It was built as a luxury hotel for Orange J. Salisbury, a mining engineer and businessman who obtained patents and started the United Filter Corporation.[3]