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Lafayette Hotel, February 3, 1937. The Lafayette Hotel consisted of three historic townhouses which functioned as the hotel (first at the Martin Hotel, then the Lafayette) from the 1880s until 1953 when they were demolished. During and after the First World War, the hotel became a favorite gathering location for airmen (both American and French stationed in New York). The owner of the Lafayette, Raymond Orteig, was the person who offered up the prize money for the first trans-Atlantic flight, won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927. The ground floor cafe was a well-known spot for writers and artists of the bohemian movement. The building was depicted not only by Berenice Abbott in this photograph by also by painter John Sloan.
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41 East Eighth Street
E. 8th Street viewed from University Place, New York City, undated (ca. 1905-1915).
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Changing New York; Lafayette Hotel University Place and East 9th Street.
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Hotel Lafayette, at Lafayette and 9th Street.
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Hotel Lafayette, at Lafayette and 9th Street looking east. Text on back of photograph states: "Looking east on Ninth Street from University Place. At the corner of University Place in the right foreground is the old Lafayette Hotel and in the left background is Wanamakers and the bridge over Ninth Street connecti
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\[The Cookery.]
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Changing New York; Lafayette Hotel University Place and East 9th Street.
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Café Lafayette, Formerly Hotel Martin, University Place and Ninth Street, New York
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Lafayette Hotel; Changing New York University Place and East 9th Street.
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Manhattan: University Place - 8th Street University Place, north on east side, from 8th Street, showing old 31-33 East 8th Street (formerly 41-39 Clinton Place), the Hotel Lafayette (formerly Hotel Martin) on the S.E. corner of 9th Street, the newly erected Devonshire House on the S.E. corner of 10th Street (site of University Place Presbyterian Church, 1845-1927), and the Hotel Albert at and adjoining the S.E. corner of 11th Street. The newer part of the Albert is the 11-story building (about 1906) in the middle of the block. The 11-story loft building on the N.E. corner of 11th Street, built after 1902, occupies the site of old Union Court, a little private street within the block. February 12, 1928. P. L. Sperr.
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Hotel Lafayette Primary subject: Hotel Lafayette
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Winter scene at the corner of East 9th Street.
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Café Lafayette Formerly Hotel Martin Primary subject: Hotel Lafayette
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Changing New York; Lafayette Hotel University Place and East 9th Street.
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