Sherry Netherland Hotel
| Sherry-Netherland | |
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(2010)
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| General information | |
| Type | Hotel |
| Architectural style |
Romanesque Revival Gothic Revival |
| Location | 781 Fifth Avenue Manhattan, New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°45′52″N 73°58′21″W / 40.764421°N 73.972625°WCoordinates: 40°45′52″N 73°58′21″W / 40.764421°N 73.972625°W |
| Construction started | 1926 |
| Completed | 1927 |
| Owner | Atlas Corporation |
| Height | 560.01 feet (170.69 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 38 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
Schultze & Weaver Buchman & Kahn |
| References | |
The Sherry-Netherland is a 38-storyapartment hotel located at 781 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 59th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was designed and built by Schultze & Weaver with Buchman & Kahn. The building is 560.01 feet (170.69 m) high, and was noted as the tallest apartment-hotel in New York City when it opened.
The building is located in the Upper East Side Historic District, created in 1981.
The building houses 165 apartments that were converted to co-ops in 1954. There are only 50 hotel rooms and suites, but in the tower above the 24th floor there are single apartments to a floor. The Neo-Romanesque/Neo-Gothic roofline with gargoyles disguises the water tower.
The site had been occupied since the early 1890s by the Hotel New Netherland, designed by William Hume for William Waldorf Astor, a member of the prominent Astor family. The building that was to replace it would occupy the same footprint and frontage on Fifth Avenue.
Demolition began in the early winter of 1926, and construction began before the year was out, but the upper floors suffered a spectacular fire when wooden scaffolding caught alight on April 12, 1927 before the building was completed. The fire burned for 12 hours and flames were said to have been visible from Long Island. It ignited a debate in the press concerning the ability of the available technology to put out fires in high-rise buildings.
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