George Washington Hotel, 23 Lexington Ave. corner 23rd St. (2003)

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The Office for Metropolitan History, "Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (1928), http://www.MetroHistory.com describes the George Washington Hotel in slightly different terms: 1928, Dept. of Buildings New Building notice 431, estimated cost $1,500,000, a 16-story brick hotel, 197 x 50, owner: Club Hotel Corp., Harry Barth, pres., 116 W 72d, architects: Frank M. Andrews (associate architect) J. B. Peterkin (associate architect) 285 Madison av.

On 18 March 1929 notice appeared in the New York Times (p. 51) as follows: "The Club Hotel Corporation of New York, which is an affiliation of the Barth Hotels Corporation, and of which Harry Barth is president, has completed financial arrangements on its three million dollar George Washington Hotel, which is being erected on Lexington Avenue, Twenty-third to Twenty-fourth Streets. The George Washington Hotel, of which Frank M. Andrews is the architect, will be a sixteen-story structure, containing 630 rooms, each with private bath, and stores on the ground floor."

The Frank M. Andrews mentioned as architect is also credited with the design of the McAlpin Hotel (1912) on Herald Square. More on Andrews can found on the McAlpin page.

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