The Grand Hotel at 1232-1238 Broadway at the corner of West 31st Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1868 and was designed by Henry Engelbert in the Second Empire style. Englebert designed the hotel for Elias S. Higgins, a properous carpet manufacturer and merchant, who had also utilized Engelbert's services to put up a marble-fronted warehouse on White Street near Broadway, and would go on to employ him to design the Grand Central (later Broadway Central) Hotel as well.
At the time the Grand Hotel was built, the area of Broadway between Madison Square and Herald Square was the premier entertainment district in the city, teaming with theatres, restaurants and hotels. The sleezier establishments on the side streets soon gave the district a new name, the "Tenderloin". When the theater district moved uptown again, the area became part of the Garment District, and the Grand Hotel became a cut-rate residential hotel.
The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1979, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets
- List of former hotels in Manhattan
- List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets
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External links
- Media related to Grand Hotel (New York City) at Wikimedia Commons
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