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ID: 700002877
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002877
Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1
St. Nicholas Hotel (hotel (public accommodation); Trench and Snook (architectural firm); 1851-1854, demolished 1878-188...)
Note: Block-long hotel in lower Manhattan which opened in 1854, and was gradually demolished from 1878-1884. Designed in a "modified" Corinthian style.
Titles:
St. Nicholas Hotel (preferred,C,U,English-P,,)
Saint Nicholas Hotel (C,U,English,,)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
hotel (built public accommodation) [300007166] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, public accommodations)
former structure [300386958]
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by condition>)

Classifications:
architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: 1851-1854, demolished 1878-1884

Creator Display:
Trench and Snook (architectural firm) [preferred,VP]
architects Trench and Snook (American architectural firm, active 1951-1957) [500254933]
architect Snook, John Butler (American architect, 1815-1901) [500028830]
Locations:
Other: Destroyed: New York [7007567] New York state (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Address Note: 40.722658 -73.999109; 517 Broadway, New York, NY
Display Materials: stone
stone (worked rock) [300011176]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), <rock by form>)

Dimensions: 83.82 m (length), 6 stories, 600 rooms
Events:
destruction: 1878-1884 New York [7007567] (New York state (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet))

Cultures:
American (preferred)

General Subject:
architecture (preferred,isness)

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Built Works
.......... Built Works by class: institutional, public, commercial, and industrial buildings
Sources and Contributors:
St. Nicholas Hotel........ [JPGM,VP]
........ Museum of the City of New York (2016-) accessed 27 June 2016
Saint Nicholas Hotel........ [VP]
........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]
....................... Museum of the City of New York (2016-) accessed 27 June 2016
....................... Landau and Condit, Rise of the New York Skyscraper (1996) 16
....................... Gayle and Lynn, Cast Iron Architecture in SoHo (2011)
....................... Norton, Hand Book of New York City (1859) 17
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Gayle and Lynn, Cast Iron Architecture in SoHo (2011) 36
..... Norton, Hand Book of New York City (1859) 17
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