Lotte New York Palace Hotel
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The Lotte New York Palace Hotel, with the historic Villard Mansion at foreground
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| General information | |
| Address | 455 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 U.S. |
| Owner | Lotte Hotels & Resorts |
| Management | Lotte Hotels & Resorts |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | McKim, Mead, and White (The Villard Mansion), Emery Roth & Sons (The Helmsley Palace Hotel) and Lee S Jablin, Harman Jablin Architects (The Palace Hotel) |
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Coordinates: 40°45′28.92″N 73°58′30.1″W / 40.7580333°N 73.975028°W
The Lotte New York Palace Hotel is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, at the corner of 50th Street and Madison Avenue. The property is housed in the historic landmark Villard Mansion and an adjacent modern 55-story skyscraper.
In 1882, Henry Villard, a railroad financier, hired McKim, Mead & White to create six private brownstone townhouses surrounding a courtyard on Madison Avenue. The architectural firm created the houses in the neo-Italian Renaissance tradition, after the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome.
In the spring of 1974, the developer Harry Helmsley proposed a 55-story hotel for the site of the Villard Houses called The Helmsley Palace Hotel. To construct his hotel tower, Helmsley hired Emery Roth & Sons, who created its design of dark bronze reflective glass and anodized aluminum to blend with the Villard Houses and the surrounding skyline of Manhattan. The Helmsley Palace Hotel opened in 1981 and was operated by Helmsley until 1992, when the hotel came under the management of a private New York limited partnership owned by the family of Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei, changing its name to The New York Palace.
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