Gilsey House
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Gilsey House Hotel
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a view from down Broadway (2010)
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| Location | 1200 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′46″N 73°59′19″W / 40.74611°N 73.98861°WCoordinates: 40°44′46″N 73°59′19″W / 40.74611°N 73.98861°W |
| Built | 1869-1871 |
| Architect | Stephen Decatur Hatch |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| NRHP Reference # | 78001872 |
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| Added to NRHP | December 14, 1978 |
| Designated NYCL | September 11, 1979 |
Gilsey House is a former eight-story 300-room hotel located at 1200 Broadway at East 29th Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is a New York City landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Gilsey House was designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch for Peter Gilsey, a Danish immigrant merchant and city alderman who leased the plot – which included the grounds of the St. George Cricket Club – from Caspar Samlar for $10,000 a year. It was constructed from 1869 to 1871 at the cost of $350,000, opening as the Gilsey House Hotel in 1872. The cast-iron for the facade of the Second Empire style building was fabricated by Daniel D. Badger, a significant and influential advocate for cast-iron architecture at the time; the extent to which Badger contributed to the design of the facade is unknown.
The hotel was luxurious – the rooms featured rosewood and walnut finishing, marble fireplace mantles, bronze chandeliers and tapestries – and offered services to its guests such as telephones, the first hotel in New York to do so. It was a favorite of Diamond Jim Brady and Oscar Wilde, Samuel Clemens was a guest, and it attracted the theatrical trade at a time when the area – which became known as the "Tenderloin" – was becoming the primary entertainment and amusement district for New York's growing population, with numerous theatres, gambling clubs and brothels.
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