| Howard Hotel | |
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 Howard Hotel in 1864 | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 176 Broadway,Manhattan,New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°42′36″N74°00′35″W / 40.7099°N 74.0096°W /40.7099; -74.0096 |
| Opened | 1840 |
| Demolished | 1864 |
TheHoward Hotel, also referred to asHoward's Hotel or theHoward House, was a well-knownNew York City hotel in the mid-19th century, located inLower Manhattan at the corner ofBroadway andMaiden Lane (176 Broadway).[1][2][3]
The six-story hotel (161 feet in front and 130 feet deep, with a dining room of 160 by 30 feet) opened in March 1840.[4] Hoteliers Daniel D. Howard and John P. Howard were its early proprietors.[5] They were sons of John Howard, who long operated a hotel inBurlington, Vermont.[6] By the late 1850s, J.E. Kingsley and Ainslee had taken over as proprietors.[7]
U.S. PresidentJohn Tyler stayed at the hotel on the night of June 25, 1842, the day before his marriage toJulia Gardiner Tyler.[8] The hotel owners locked up the servants to prevent press leaks, so the wedding took the world by surprise.[9]
Later African-American politicianTunis Campbell was the principal waiter at the hotel for some time (at least from 1842–45), and later wrote a well-regarded 1848 guide to hotel management.[10]
The hotel was among those which the "Confederate Army of Manhattan" attempted to burn down in November 1864.[11]
The building was converted into offices in 1868.[12][13]
The location of the hotel is now occupied by the Cushman Building (1898) designed byC. P. H. Gilbert on the corner,[14][15] and the building adjoining it to the north on Broadway.