Pabst Hotel
| Pabst Hotel | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | New York City |
| Address | 153 West 42nd Street (also 1469 Broadway and 603 7th Avenue) |
| Construction started | October 1898 |
| Opened | November 11, 1899 |
| Demolished | November 24, 1902 |
| Cost | $225,000 |
| Renovation cost | $50,000 |
| Owner | Charles Thorley |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | steel-frame |
| Material | limestone |
| Floor count | 9 |
| Grounds | 58 x 25 feet |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Henry F. Kilburn |
| Other designers | Otto Strack (portico) |
| Main contractor | Robinson & Wallace |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 35 guestrooms |
The Pabst Hotel occupied the north side of 42nd Street in Manhattan, between 7th Avenue and Broadway, in Longacre Square, from 1899 to 1902. It was demolished to make room for the new headquarters of The New York Times, for which Longacre Square was renamed Times Square.
To the Pabst Brewing Company, the hotel and its restaurants were part of a nationwide program for promoting its beer. This facility, however, was in conflict not only with the Times, but also with plans for New York's new subway system.
In the 1890s the Pabst Brewing Company of Milwaukee embarked upon a program of acquiring restaurants and hotels—at one time controlling nine of them in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York—giving the resorts its name and serving only its own products. It subleased the properties to professional facilities operators.
In New York, Pabst came to control:
Pabst itself leased the building from Charles Thorley, who built it on ground leased from Henry Dolan for five 21-year terms. Thorley leased it to the brewing company for the remainder of the first term in 1899; Pabst leased it to Jame B. Regan, who ran it as proprietor. It stood on the south end of the slender triangular block formed by the intersection of 7th Avenue and Broadway, the rest of which belonged to the estate of Amos R. Eno (November 1, 1810 – February 21, 1898) and was occupied by an older group of five four-story brick buildings, also Eno's, which tapered in width from south to north to fit the block.
The principal architect, Henry F. Kilburn, designed a nine-story tower with a steel frame and limestone cladding—still a new construction method at the time. Floors 3 through 9 each had five bedrooms. Construction began in October 1898, and the opening was November 11, 1899. The building cost $225,000 and Pabst made additional improvements for $50,000.
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