Thayer Hotel
| The Thayer Hotel | |
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View of the Thayer Hotel from the Hudson River
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Address | 674 Thayer Road |
| Town or city | West Point, New York |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 41°22′37″N 73°57′42″W / 41.37694°N 73.96167°W |
| Construction started | 1925 |
| Completed | 1926 |
| Inaugurated | May 27, 1926 |
| Client | United States Military Academy |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | granite |
| Floor count | 5 (Main Building); 3 (Executive Suite Wing) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Caughey and Evans of New York |
| Website | |
| http://www.thethayerhotel.com | |
The Thayer Hotel is a 151-room "Historic Hotel of America" property located 50 miles north of New York City on the banks of the Hudson River at 674 Thayer Road in West Point, New York on the campus of the United States Military Academy. It is named after Sylvanus Thayer, West Point class of 1808, the "father of the Military Academy." It replaced the West Point Hotel.
The Thayer Hotel has three main markets: tourists visiting West Point, weddings, and corporate conferences. The Thayer Hotel came under new management in October 2009. The 151-room hotel has been completely renovated, re-branded, and is now being marketed to host corporate events and leadership training. Renovations completed at The Thayer Hotel in 2012, have brought about the opening of its new executive suite wing, which includes 23 suite-style rooms.
In 1829, the West Point Hotel was built near the Plain on Trophy Point. The West Point Hotel served the academy for over a century, hosting a long list of dignitaries such as Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott, William Tecumseh Sherman, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and James Whistler. Perhaps that hotel's history is tied most famously to one of West Point's most famous graduates, General Douglas MacArthur. During General Douglas MacArthur's time as a cadet, his mother lived in the West Point Hotel. When Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur returned from World War I to become the Superintendent of West Point, he started a major expansion program of the buildings. The new Thayer Hotel was one of these expansion projects and the Thayer Hotel officially opened May 27, 1926 with 225 rooms. General MacArthur would return to West Point and stay in the hotel in 1962 for one final time to give his noted "Duty, Honor, Country" speech to the cadets as he received the Thayer Award.
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