Beaux Arts Hotel E 44th Street

I posted this message on Gotham Center but am still waiting for a reply (I think they%26#39;re a much older crowd over there - probably still using dial-up) :-)

Here%26#39;s the question for you young whippersnappers:

I am curious to know what building stands where the hotel I stayed in in 1966 used to be. It was the Beaux Arts Hotel and was in E 44th Street. Anyone know what is there now?

Trivia Fact: ask any Englishman where he was when England won the world cup (soccer) and, in much the same way as Americans of a similar age know where they were when JFK was shot, he will know instantly. I was in the Beaux Arts Hotel!

Beaux Arts Hotel E 44th Street

It could be the Dylan Hotel on EAST 41 st or the Mansfield on WEST 44 st.

Beaux Arts Hotel E 44th Street

You mean they moved it? That%26#39;s pretty cool!

Seriously, Whiz, it was definitely somewhere on E 44th Street (on the south side of the street I think). The building might still be there for all I know but I%26#39;m guessing it has been demolished to make way for something grander.

There is an apartment block (strangely enough called The Beaux Arts) which used to be a hotel on that street. Could that be it ?

I tried to find any photos of the BA Apartments - all I could find were some very small ones that looked very swanky. It%26#39;s possible but not conclusive.

I found mention of the Beaux Arts Apartments at 307 east 44 st, ';one of a pair of 17 story apt houses designed by the firm Raymond Hood Godley %26amp; Fouilboux in 1929-30. The other of the pair is on the south side of east 44 st.';

This is mentioned in a report on the feasiblity of a 2nd ave subway (which never happened). It%26#39;s on page G-1-10 here

鈥yc.ny.us/capconstr/鈥ppendixg_1.pdf

Whiz: I would have expected it to say something like ';converted from hotel'; or something similar. I will just have to take a wander down 44th Street next month and see if anything looks familiar. Well done for finding that reference though.

There%26#39;s a link to the buildings mentioned here...they have a contact button for questions as well. www.brodskyorg.com/BODY.cfm?Building_ID=103

Daisiegee, how on earth did you happen to know this? I%26#39;m in awe!

Well, in between looking longingly at apatment listings, I%26#39;ve done a bit of searching. The house is a tip mind you, as no housework has been done!

The two buildings, at 307 and 310 E. 44th, were built at the same time, around 1929, and are currently owned by the Brodsky Organization and operated as long-term rentals. The architects who designed them also designed the now-defunct Beaux Arts Institute of Design (on the south side of the street, currently the Egyptian Mission to the UN). In the first 40 or so years of their existence, 307 and 310 were operated as apartment hotels (as were many other NY buildings at that time) for both permanent and transient residents. There was a restaurant in the buildings, so the apartments (then and to this day) did not have full kitchens. During the apartment hotel period prominent writers and artists lived in the buildings (including, I am told, an early director of the Museum of Modern Art). During the 50s and 60s, following the establishment of the U.N. many diplomats stayed in the buildings during UN sessions (these days many of them stay at the Millenium UN Plaza Hotel, which is on the same block).