Peninsula Hotel New York: Pokumbukira zaka zapamwamba za mahotela apamwamba

Pa February 7, 1989, the Chilumba idasankhidwa kukhala Landmark ndi New York Landmarks Preservation Commission. Renaissance Gotham Hotel yoyambilira ya neo-Italy ndi imodzi mwazinthu zochepa pa Fifth Avenue yomwe imakumbukira zaka zapamwamba za mahoteli apamwamba komanso malo otchuka omwe adakhalapo pakupanga mzindawu. Yokhazikitsidwa mu 1905, idapangidwa ndi kampani yopanga mapulani a Hiss & Weekes ndipo ndi amodzi mwa malo akale kwambiri m'ma hotelo oyambirira "omanga nyumba". Mahotelawa adalengeza kusintha kwa Fifth Avenue kuchokera mumsewu wokhalamo okha - Miliyoneya Row - kupita kumalo ochita malonda. Kukula kwa nkhani makumi awiri, kuphatikiza padenga lokhala ndi mipando ingapo, kumwera chakumadzulo kwa West 55th Street ndi Fifth Avenue, Gotham woperekedwa molimba mtima ndi malo owongoleredwa ndi anthu amakono, Beaux-Arts St. Regis Hotel molunjika ku Fifth Avenue . Imathandizanso mwaluso McKim, Mead & White's University Club yomwe imayandikana ndi Peninsula kumwera.

Zomangamanga Zolemba mu Novembala 1902:

Tonsefe tikudziwa momwe omanga athu akhala omvera chisoni, zomwe zidapangitsa kuti pakhale zidutswa zingapo, zosagwirizana, zomangamanga, osayesedwa kuti agwire ntchito yofanana chifukwa cha kukongola ndi kufanana. Hotelo yayikuluyi (Gotham) yazaka khumi ndi zisanu ndi zitatu idapangidwa kuti igwirizane ndi University Club yoyandikana nayo, yomwe ndi kamangidwe kabwino. Mzere wamapangidwe a hoteloyi uzitsatira mizere ya University Club. Mzere womwewo udzapanga malo opitilira asanu otsegulira kalabu ndi asanu ku hotelo. Balustrade yamwala ichitidwa pamizere yomweyo ya balustrade yapano ya kalabu. Chifukwa chake chipika chonsecho chimangirizidwa palimodzi. Zomangamanga zonse ndizofanana ndi gululi, pokhala Kubadwanso Kwatsopano ku Italiya momwe zingathere mu nyumba khumi ndi zisanu ndi zitatu.

Kampani ya Hiss & Weekes idapitilizabe ntchito yake kwa zaka makumi atatu ndi zinayi ndikupanga nyumba zingapo mzindawu kuphatikiza: nyumba zokongola za Belnord Apartments (1908-09), nyumba yayikulu yaku Italy yaku Renaissance ku West 86th Street (yosankhidwa New York Mzinda Wodziwika); ndi nyumba zokongola za Beaux-Arts ku 6 ndi 8 West 65th Street (tsopano ku Upper East Side Historic District).

A Gotham sanawoneke kuti akupeza mwayi womwe amafunafuna, mwa zina chifukwa unaphimbidwa ndi kutsegulidwa kwa St Regis Hotel kudutsa Fifth Avenue kenako Plaza Hotel malo anayi kumpoto. A Gotham adakonzedweratu mu 1908 atalephera kupeza chilolezo chomwa mowa. Monga Christopher Gray adanenera mu nkhani yake ya Streetscapes mu New York Times (Januware 3, 1999):

The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church ili kumpoto chakumadzulo kwa 55th ndi Fifth ndipo St. Regis inali itangopeza kumene chilolezo chakumwa zoledzeretsa - zinali kuphwanya lamulo loletsa kugulitsa zakumwa mkati mwa 200 mita ya tchalitchi. Gotham, molunjika 55th Street kuchokera ku tchalitchicho, anali kuphwanya lamulo mosabisa. Nkhani zingapo zamanyuzipepala zimati Senator wa ku United States a Thomas C. Platt ndi andale ena odziwika anali chete m'gulu loyambirira la Gotham, ndipo mu 1905 ndi 1907 ngongole zinayambitsidwa ku Nyumba Yamalamulo ya New York State yopeputsa mahotela ngati anali ndi 200 zipinda.

Ngakhale ndalama zonse zomwe zidapangidwa kuti Gotham sanadutse. Mu 1908 a Gotham adalanda ndalama zokwana $ 741 za nyama, ndipo Real Estate Record & Guide idati kulephera kumachitika chifukwa chakuletsa zakumwa zoledzeretsa, zomwe zidati ndizodabwitsa. Hoteloyo, yomwe idawononga $ 4 miliyoni kuti amange, idagulitsidwa $ 2.45 miliyoni.

Hoteloyo inali ndi eni ake mpaka itagulitsidwa mu 1920 kwa William ndi Julius Manger, eni ake a Manger chain of hotels kuphatikizapo Martha Washington Hotel for Women. Pambuyo pake, Kirkeby Hotel Group idagula malowa mu 1944. Eni ake ena anali Akazi a Evelyn Sharp, Webb & Knapp, Wellington Associates, eni ake a hotelo yaku Switzerland a Rene Hatt, Sol Goldman, Irving Goldman, Arthur Cohen, William Zeckendorf Jr. ndi Steven Goodstein. Pomaliza, mu 1988, Hong Kong ndi Shanghai Hotels Ltd., kampani yayikulu ya Peninsula Group yama hotela ku Asia, idagula Gotham Hotel pamtengo wa $ 127 miliyoni ndikuuyitcha Peninsula Hotel. Pomaliza, a Gotham adapeza omwe adawafuna kuyambira 1905. Ngati munakhalapo ku Peninsula Hotel ku Hong Kong, mukudziwa momwe moyo wabwino komanso ntchito zimamvekera: zipatso zokoma ndi champagne mchipinda mwanu mukamayang'ana Bwato la Star pitani padoko kunja kwazenera lanu; Rolls-Royce yoyendera alendo popita kumisonkhano ndi kubwalo la ndege; kusunga espresso iwiri m'chipinda chochezera anthu ambiri mukamawerenga International Herald Tribune.

New York Peninsula Hotel ilandila AAA Five Diamond Award pazaka khumi ndi zitatu zotsatizana. Peninsula ili ndi imodzi mwamakalabu abwino kwambiri komanso abwino kwambiri ku New York kuphatikiza spa 35,000 lalikulu, dziwe losambira ndi galasi komanso padenga la padenga ndi bwalo.

Hoteloyo yasankha malo abwino kuposa masewera: Mini Coopers yoyendetsedwa ndi woyendetsa. Magalimoto amapezeka kwa maola atatu patsiku kwa alendo omwe amasungira suite. Apaulendo amatha kutsatira maulendo akumzinda omwe amasungidwa pa iPhones kapena iPads mgalimoto, kapena amatha kungouza oyendetsa kumene akufuna kupita. Magalimoto, mtundu wa Mini Cooper S Clubman, adasinthidwa pang'ono. Ali ndi firiji yaying'ono ndi bokosi lazonyamula pamwamba pazotengera. Kupatula pakupanga, kusiyana kwakukulu pakati pa izi ndi zombo zaku Hong Kong: simupita ku eyapoti. Magalimoto amenewa amapangidwira chisangalalo chokwera.

Gotham wakale samakhalanso mwana wamasiye.

Wolembayo, Stanley Turkel, ndi wovomerezeka komanso wothandizira pamsika wama hotelo. Amagwiritsa ntchito hotelo yake, kuchereza alendo komanso kuwunikira komwe kumagwiritsa ntchito kasamalidwe ka chuma, kuwunikiridwa kwa magwiridwe antchito ndi magwiridwe antchito amgwirizano wama franchising ndi ntchito zothandizira milandu. Makasitomala ndi eni hotelo, osunga ndalama, ndi mabungwe obwereketsa.

“Akatswiri Opanga Mapulani a Hotelo Yaikulu ku America”

Bukhu langa lachisanu ndi chitatu la mbiriyakale ya hotelo ili ndi akatswiri khumi ndi awiri omwe adapanga ma hotelo 94 kuyambira 1878 mpaka 1948: Warren & Wetmore, Schultze & Weaver, Julia Morgan, Emery Roth, McKim, Mead & White, Henry J. Hardenbergh, Carrere & Hastings, Mulliken & Moeller, Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, Trowbridge & Livingston, George B. Post ndi Ana.
 

Mabuku Ena Osindikizidwa:

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• Hotel Mavens: Lucius M. Boomer, George C. Boldt ndi Oscar waku Waldorf (2014)
• Great American Hoteliers Voliyumu 2: Apainiya Ogulitsa Makampani (2016)
• Kumangidwira Pomaliza: Mahotela Azaka 100+ Kumadzulo kwa Mississippi (2017)

• Hotel Mavens Volume 2: Henry Morrison Flagler, Henry Bradley Plant, Carl Graham Fisher (2018)

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