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The Hotels Statler Company, Inc., was sold to Conrad Hilton 's Hilton Hotels in 1954 for $111 million, then the world's largest real estate transaction. [ 1] The Statler hotel in Buffalo was the first to be demolished after the Hilton acquisition, in 1968. The Statler hotel in New York became the Hotel Pennsylvania.
Condo hotel. A condo hotel, also known as a condotel, hotel condo, or a contel, is a building that is legally a condominium but operated as a hotel, offering short-term rentals, and which maintains a front desk. Condo hotels are typically high-rise buildings developed and operated as luxury hotels, usually in major cities and resorts. [1]
The Hotel St. George is a building in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. Built in sections between 1885 and 1930, the hotel was once the city's largest hotel, with 2,632 rooms at its peak. The hotel occupies the city block bounded by Pineapple Street, Henry Street, Clark Street, and Hicks Street. The building complex consisted of eight ...
We've seen eloquently written real estate listings for luxurious and quirky homes—long, drawn out adjectives and picture-perfect descriptions aplenty. But we've never read anything quite like ...
Chateau Marmont. / 34.09806°N 118.36861°W / 34.09806; -118.36861. The Chateau Marmont is a hotel located at 8221 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The hotel was designed by architects Arnold A. Weitzman and William Douglas Lee and completed in 1929. [ 2][ a] It was modeled loosely after the Château d'Amboise, a royal ...
v. t. e. Single-room occupancy ( SRO) is a type of low-cost housing typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes, or single adults who like a minimalist lifestyle, who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk. [ 1] SRO units are rented out as permanent residence and/or primary residence [ 2 ...
Oheka Castle. / 40.82889°N 73.44833°W / 40.82889; -73.44833. Oheka Castle, also known as the Otto Kahn Estate, is a hotel located on the North Shore (or "Gold Coast") of Long Island, in West Hills, New York, a hamlet in the town of Huntington. It was the country home of investment financier and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn and his ...
The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States, about five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley , co-founder of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company , and opened on July 4, 1909, as a resort for upper-class Easterners and a health retreat for ...