The St. Regis Hotel
| The St. Regis New York | |
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(2015)
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| General information | |
| Location | 2 East 55th Street Manhattan, New York City |
| Opening | September 4, 1904 |
| Management | Starwood Hotels |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 20 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Trowbridge & Livingston (original building), Sloan & Robertson (1927 addition) |
| Developer | John Jacob Astor IV |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 171 |
| Number of suites | 67 |
| Number of restaurants | 2 |
Coordinates: 40°45′41″N 73°58′29″W / 40.76140°N 73.974627°W
The St. Regis New York is a Forbes five-star, AAA five-diamond luxury hotel. It is located at 2 East 55th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues, with an entrance on Fifth Avenue.
Eight years after the hotel opened in 1904, John Jacob Astor died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Astor's son Vincent inherited the hotel and sold it to Benjamin Newton Duke.
In 1927, the Dukes added a new wing designed by Sloan & Robertson to the hotel on the east end, along 55th St. The wing nearly doubled the size of the hotel to 550 rooms, added a rooftop ballroom/nightclub, and increased the height to 20 stories.
In 1932, the iconic "Old King Cole" painting by Maxfield Parrish, which had been created for Astor's defunct Knickerbocker Hotel, was moved to the St. Regis and made the centerpiece of a new bar, the King Cole Bar, which has remained a New York institution ever since. Two years later, in 1934 (the year after Prohibition ended), bartender Fernand Petiot invented a drink there which he called the "Red Snapper". It has since become known around the world as the Bloody Mary.
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