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The Astor is a building at 235 West 75th Street, on Broadway between 75th and 76th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. William Waldorf Astor hired architects Clinton and Russell to design the two southern towers of The Astor in 1901.
Vincent Astor redeveloped the site at 217 Broadway as the Astor House Building, a modest seven stories tall, in 1915–1916. [20] The rest was demolished in 1926 and the site rebuilt as the Transportation Building , which was designed by York and Sawyer with Art Deco details.
Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn Astor (September 22, 1830 – October 30, 1908) was an American socialite who led the Four Hundred, high society of New York City in the Gilded Age. [1] Referred to later in life as "the Mrs. Astor" or simply "Mrs. Astor", she was the wife of yachtsman William Backhouse Astor Jr.
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor [1] (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York City .
Two Temple Place, known for many years as Astor House, is a Neo-Gothic building [1] situated near Victoria Embankment in central London, England. [2] It is known for its architecture, and contains notable works by the likes of William Silver Frith , Sir George Frampton RA , Nathaniel Hitch and Thomas Nicholls .
Pauline Spender-Clay (née Astor; 24 September 1880 – 5 April 1972) was an American-English socialite known for her hospitality; her gardening, especially the cultivation of lilies; and her portrait painted by John Singer Sargent. Like many American heiresses, her engagements were a subject of speculation before her marriage.
The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan, New York City. The theater is located in the historic Colonnade Row , originally constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain.
Astor Place Theatre, off-Broadway, New York City Astor Theatre, New York City , on Broadway, New York City Dixie Center for the Arts , formerly the Astor in Ruston, Louisiana