| Windsor Hotel | |
|---|---|
 Windsor Hotel, before 1899 | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City |
| Opened | 1873 |
| Demolished | 1899 |
The Windsor Hotel fire occurred on March 17, 1899. The hotel located at 575 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of East 47th Street) in Manhattan, New York City, New York. The seven-story hotel opened in 1873,[1] at a time when hotel residency was becoming popular with the wealthy, and was advertised as "the most comfortable and homelike hotel in New York."[2][3] It burned down on St Patrick's Day 1899 with great loss of life.
- ^ Friedman, Donald (2010). Historical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology (second ed.). New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-73268-9., p. 224.
- ^ Gray, Christopher (January 7, 2010). "A Day of Heroism and Horror". The New York Times.
- ^ For a picture of the hotel in 1877, see Edward B Watson and Edmund Vincent Gillon, New York Then and Now: 83 Manhattan Sites Photographed in the Past and in the Present, New York: Dover, 1976, ISBN 0-486-23361-8, p. 62.