Hotel Beacon

The Hotel Beacon
The Hotel Beacon, June 13, 2017
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General information
StatusOpen
TypeHotel
Location2130 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
United States
Coordinates40°46′50″N 73°58′52″W / 40.7806402°N 73.9810592°W / 40.7806402; -73.9810592
Construction started1928
Completed1928
OpeningNovember 1928[1]
Cost$8,000,000[2]
Design and construction
Architect(s)Walter W. Ahlschlager[3]
Main contractorHavemeyer Construction Co.[4]

The Hotel Beacon is a Beaux-Arts, 24-story building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager.[3] It was built in 1928 at 2130 Broadway, at the corner with 75th Street, on the site of the Tilden Club House[5] and the Dakota Stables.[6]

At the time of its opening, apartments could be leased unfurnished with maid service or furnished with full hotel service. They featured one, two or three bedrooms, each with bath and kitchenette. Kitchenette were described as 'almost' kitchen size and equipped with silent electric refrigeration. The hotel featured a gymnasium, rooftop gardens on the setbacks,[7] the Cafe of the Beacon in the lobby, located back then on the second floor mezzanine, that could seat 250 and the Restaurant Grill in the basement seating 200. Also in the basement was a barber shop and a beauty salon.[8]

As of 2017, the hotel features 278 transient hotel rooms[9] but still hosts a few permanent tenants.

  1. ^ Chanins Purchase the Hotel Beacon – New York Evening Post April 5, 1930.
  2. ^ Plan New Theater to Cost $8,000,000 – Brooklyn Daily Eagle January 25, 1927.
  3. ^ a b Under Way on Fifth Avenue – New York Sun January 14, 1928.
  4. ^ MAKE $4,450,000 LOAN – New York Evening Post April 14, 1928
  5. ^ Building to Cost $800,000 – Dyckman Tract Lot Sold – New York Daily Tribune August 5, 1908.
  6. ^ The Lost Dakota Stables – 75th Street at Amsterdam Ave – New York Daytonian in Manhattan May 25, 2015.
  7. ^ Hotel Beacon Soon Ready – New York Evening Post September 8, 1928
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference midwaybeacon was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Tripadvisor page for the Hotel Beacon