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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".
[27] [105] Despite complaints about the CBS studio from the Sherry Netherland Hotel, [106] the studio opened that November. [107] By late 1999, Trump said he had leased office space in the building at $100 per square foot ($1,100/m 2); [108] at the time, the tenants included Bank Melli Iran. [109]
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.
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]
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The park was opened in 1971 as 'Flevohof [1] '. It was an educational theme park themed after agriculture and farming. Having struggled to compete with more modern family attractions, Flevohof went bankrupt in 1993, and was subsequently purchased by the Walibi Group that autumn, who redeveloped the site as an amusement park.