Park Avenue and East 40th Street. Murray Hill Hotel, Belmont Hotel and Grand Central Station, 1920s. View of the west side of Park Avenue looking north to Grand Central Station. Center is the Belmont Hotel; Built: 1905; Razed: 1930; Architect: Warren & Wetmore. The 22 story hotel was demolished in 1930 to clear the way for a skyscraper which was never built. In 1940 the Airlines Building was erected on the site. It was razed in 1977 to make way for the present Phillip Morris Building.
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Local Subjects
Belmont Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
Murray Hill Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.)
Park Avenue (New York, N.Y.)
Street life
Hotels
Railroad stations
Murray Hill Neighborhood (New York, N.Y.)
Note
1905
1930
August Belmont & Co.
Digitized by Mina Rees Library; City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center.