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The restaurant originally opened as the Atwood & Bacon Oyster House on August 3, 1826. [2] The Union Oyster House has had several famous people in history as regular diners, including the Kennedy family, John F. Kerry, and Daniel Webster. [3] Webster was known for regularly consuming at least six plates of oysters. [4]
The first restaurant to open at the Freight House was Lidia’s Kansas City. Lidia's is an Italian restaurant that was opened by celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich in October 1998. The interior of the restaurant was designed by architect and designer David Rockwell. [3] Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue was the second restaurant to open in the ...
The restaurant space was first opened as the Grand Central Terminal Restaurant. Although Grand Central Terminal opened on February 2, 1913, its opening was celebrated one day prior, February 1, with a dinner at the restaurant, arranged for Warren and Wetmore along with 100 guests. [2] The restaurant was operated by The Union News Company.
The Union House is an example of the center gabled variety of Gothic Revival.. The Union House utilizes a combination of Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles. The Greek Revival influence is found in the doorway, which matches almost exactly the description put forth by Virginia and Lee McAlester in their 1984 book, A Field Guide to American Houses. [2]
A cover of the 1909 Santa Fe Railway pamphlet describing Fred Harvey hotels, dining rooms and sample menus. The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the Western United States.
The Kuhefuss Union House Hotel at W62 N557 Washington Ave was built in 1883 in Italianate style, with arched windows and a corbelled cornice. [2] [20] The Conrad Weisler Hotel at W61 N491-493 Washington Ave is an 1885 three-story Queen Anne-styled building with cream brick on the first two stories and the third story clad in shingles.
The hotel was originally run by brothers Nicholas and Fred Altmayer. In 1918, August Maternoski purchased the building. Additions have been made to the hotel in 1885, 1903, 1918 and 1922.
Originally called Union House, during the 1930s the building housed The United Yeast Co. Ltd, yeast merchants. [1]The ground floor was occupied by Walter Wraggs motor cycle dealers during the 1960s and 1970s and at that time much of the rest of the building was used by the tailoring industry.