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The Sherry-Netherland is a 38-story [1] apartment hotel located at 781 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 59th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Schultze & Weaver with Buchman & Kahn. [4] The building is 560 ft (170.7 m) high and was the tallest apartment-hotel in New York City when it opened.
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A 1917 menu for the Louis Sherry restaurant in the Hotel Netherland. Built in 1892-93 to a design by William H. Hume for William Waldorf Astor, its original lessee was Ferdinand P. Earle. [1] The structure was 234 feet (71 m) in height with 17 stories, making it the "tallest hotel structure in the world".
New York County Courthouse and Sherry Netherland Hotel built. Roxy Theatre, and Ziegfeld Theatre open. New York Yankees won their 2nd World Series championship, sweeping the Pittsburgh Pirates in 4 games. Random House publisher, Strand Bookstore, Russian Tea Room, Caffe Reggio, and Sardi's restaurant in business. 1928
Louis Sherry in 1889. Louis Sherry (June 6, 1856 – June 9, 1926) was an American restaurateur, caterer, confectioner and hotelier during the Gilded Age and early 20th century. His name is typically associated with an upscale brand of candy and ice cream, and also the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York City.
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The original Savoy Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street opened in June 1892, following the opening of the neighboring Plaza Hotel in 1890. The original 12-story Savoy was designed by architect Ralph S. Townsend, for landowners including New York Supreme Court Justice P. Henry Dugro. [1]