Sherry-Netherland hotel and Savoy-Plaza hotel – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Sherry-Netherland hotel and Savoy-Plaza hotel, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sherry-Netherland hotel and Savoy-Plaza hotel
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The Sherry-Netherland and the Savoy-Plaza were both luxury hotels on Fifth Avenue in New York, and this c1927 photograph pairs them in a single view of the city's hotel row. The Sherry-Netherland, completed in 1927 at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, was among the most fashionable addresses of its day, with the Savoy-Plaza rising alongside it at the edge of Grand Army Plaza. Both buildings reflect the boom in towering hotels that transformed Midtown Manhattan during the 1920s, when developers built grand residences for wealthy travelers and long-term guests. The picture is worth studying for how it records the skyline and street life of that moment, just before the Great Depression slowed construction across the city.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1927. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,216 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-120114 |
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