Street Scenes - March 1922. E. 42nd St. No. Side - Madison to 5th Aves.
Bird's eye view of the intersection of East 42nd Street and Madison Avenue looking westward toward 5th Avenue and showing a large building on the corner which has a particularly elaborate roof with carvings, pillars, and statues. Other smaller buildings are also visible on East 42nd Street. Automobile and streetcar traffic is seen on both East 42nd Street and Madison Avenue.
Museum of the City of New YorkHotel Manhattan, 1922.
The Hotel Manhattan was a 16-story structure completed in 1896 to the designs of Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. At 250 feet tall, it was once (likely briefly) the tallest hotel structure in the world. It was crowned by a stately mansard roof. The hotel was demolished in 1961 and replaced in 1963 by a Kahn & Jacobs-designed glass tower.
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