Astor House
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The Astor House was for a time the finest hotel in New York City.
John Jacob Astor built this luxurious, Greek Revival style, Isaiah Rogers designed hotel across Broadway from New York City Hall Vesey in 1836. It was originally called the Park Hotel with 309 rooms in its 6 stories with gaslights and bathing/toilet facilities on each floor and was diagonally across the corner from the New York Herald. Mathew Brady lived there in the 1840s and Abraham Lincoln stayed there in February 1860. By the early 1870s it was considered old-fashioned and unappealing and principally used by businessmen. It was a safe haven during the Great Blizzard of '88 and in 1916, Charles Evans Hughes stayed there while his presidential bid stood in the balance.
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