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Entrance to The Oak Bar in August 2008. The Oak Bar is closely associated with the Oak Room and adjoins it [5]: 22 but is a separate entity. [2] [3] The Oak Bar was established in its current location on the northwest corner of the Plaza Hotel in 1945 when the hotel was owned by Conrad Hilton (or re-established – the area may have been part of the Men's Bar between 1912 and 1920).
The Algonquin Hotel is a hotel at 59 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. The 181-room hotel, opened in 1902, was designed by architect Goldwin Starrett for the Puritan Realty Company. The hotel has hosted numerous literary and theatrical notables throughout its history, including members of the Algonquin Round ...
The Plaza Hotel (also known as The Plaza) is a luxury hotel and condominium apartment building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.It is located on the western side of Grand Army Plaza, after which it is named, just west of Fifth Avenue, and is between 58th Street and Central Park South (a.k.a. 59th Street), at the southeastern corner of Central Park.
Algonquin Round Table. The Algonquin Round Table was a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members of "The Vicious Circle", as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929. At these luncheons they engaged in wisecracks ...
Architect (s) Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. The Waldorf-Astoria originated as two hotels, built side by side by feuding relatives, on Fifth Avenue in New York, New York, United States. Built in 1893 and expanded in 1897, the hotels were razed in 1929 to make way for construction of the Empire State Building. Their successor, the current Waldorf ...
Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker attend the premiere of Did You Hear About the Morgans? after-party at the Oak Room on December 14, 2009 in New York City. (Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images ...
The Oak Room, a room in Winnington Hall in Cheshire. The Oak Room, a room in The Olde White Harte in Hull where, according to legend, Sir John Hotham and others made the decision precipitating the Siege of Hull. Oak Hall (formerly the Oak Room), a 19th-century addition to West Dean House in Sussex.
Designated NYCL. September 30, 1968. The Villard Houses are a set of former residences at 451–457 Madison Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by the architect Joseph Morrill Wells of McKim, Mead & White in the Renaissance Revival style, the residences were erected in 1884 for railroad magnate Henry Villard.