Tobias hotels biography of albert

A Brief History

Around 1850, three row houses were built at what was then 32-36 East 11th Street a few blocks north of Greenwich Village’s tony Washington Square. In 1875-76 they were converted into the Hotel St.

Stephen under the ownership of businessman-investor Albert S. Rosenbaum and management of William Ryder. Four years later Rosenbaum commissioned from Henry J Hardenbergh, architect of the Dakota Apartments, a block of 24 “French flats” -- the then fashionable term for luxury apartments -- on the corner plot between the St.

Stephen and University Place. In 1886-87, the apartments were converted into a hotel, also under Ryder’s management.

Tobias hotels biography of albert

Business prospered. A story was added in 1891 along with a new entrance more suitable to a hotel than apartments. The two hotels merged, inevitably, in the mid-1890s. Third and fourth buildings were added, in 1903 and 1924 respectively, leaving the Hotel Albert occupying the easterly frontage of University Place between 11th and 10th Str