Allerton Hotel for Women

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Hotel 57

The Allerton Hotel for Women, today known as Hotel 57, is a hotel located at 130 East

Lexington Avenue and 57th Street by the Allerton House Company at a cost of $700,000. It originally had stores on its ground floor.[1] The hotel intended to accommodate six hundred business and professional women and also shelter young girls.[2] When completed in 1923, the Allerton Hotel had room for four hundred tenants. Its occupancy was filled prior to completion and there was a long waiting list. After opening it was so popular that another establishment of its kind was anticipated.[3]

Ownership

James Stewart Cushman was a founder and former owner of the Allerton chain of reasonably priced club hotels for white collar men and women which started in 1916. The group of financiers who joined Allerton included George W. Perkins and Arthur Curtiss James. The chain was named for Mary Allerton, a Mayflower ancestor of Cushman.[4]

Cushman was injured critically in a car wreck in September 1934, when he collided with a truck on the

Fifth Avenue (Manhattan). He died at eighty years of age in March 1952.[4]

Expansion

The

Allerton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1924, was owned and operated by the Allerton Company of New York.[7] They managed a hotel chain that grew to eight hotels.[4]
This included establishments in
Sixth Avenue and 58th Street, 71 by 100 feet.[9] They acquired the Temple Rodeph Sholom site at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street from Simon Brothers and Hartstein Brothers in October 1926. At the time William H. Silk was secretary of the Allerton Hotel interests. The plot measured 112 feet on Lexington Avenue and 120 feet on 63rd Street.[8]

The owners built a new hotel at Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street. The fourth store to lease space in the new edifice was Sheldon Cleaners and Dyers in March 1927. The lease for a term of years was negotiated by Gaines, Van Nostrand & Morrison, Inc.[10]

In September 1942, the Allerton Hotels leased the eight-story Club Hotel at 317 West 45th Street from Vincent Astor. The building contained one hundred sixty-five sleeping rooms, reception room, lounge, library, and dining room. The Club Hotel enabled the hotel chain to provide low cost accommodations in the Midtown Manhattan section of the West Side. Broker Abraham Steers negotiated the lease.[11]

There were six Allerton Hotels in New York City.[4] The Allerton Hotel became part of a new chain of hotels that included six cities in October 1958. The new Mansion Hotels chain also included the Henry Hudson Hotel and Midston House in New York City. The Detroit-Leland Hotel and the Allerton Hotel and Belmont Hotel in Chicago, were the others in the group. They had a total of 4,600 rooms.[12]

The hotel was renamed Renaissance New York Hotel 57 in 2009.[13]

Hotel addenda

The Cox Sandwich & Waffle Shoppe Inc. was one of the many businesses operating in the hotel Circa 1930s. The proprietor, William Lea Cox, was born in Louisiana on July 3, 1891. He moved to New York after 1910. He married Caroline “Carrie” Unkel in 1913. He died June 21, 1939.

Helen Whiley, a music teacher and graduate of

Bellevue Hospital Center for observation.[14]

The Women's University Club made the Allerton Hotel its headquarters beginning in May 1956. Their former headquarters was the New York Biltmore Hotel.[15]

The Allerton Hotel at 302 West 22nd Street, New York City, was described as a welfare hotel in a 1990 article. A crying newborn baby was found in a garbage can there by a porter. The baby girl was taken to

St. Vincent's Hospital and was reported to be in stable condition. Police thought the infant belonged to one of eighteen pregnant women then residing at the hotel.[16] The facility is now an upscale The GEM Hotel
.

Contrary to popular belief in Chicago, the Chicago hotel was never built nor owned by

Samuel Allerton
. Mr. Cushman asked Robert Allerton if he minded having the hotel named "Allerton" rather than "Cushman." Mr. Allerton had no problem with it.

References

  1. ^ Allerton Hotel To Cost $700,000, The New York Times, December 11, 1920, pg. 23.
  2. ^ A Business Women's Hotel, The New York Times, February 1, 1920, pg. E12.
  3. ^ Expansion Of Trade On Lexington Avenue, The New York Times, March 11, 1923, pg. REA2.
  4. ^ a b c d James S. Cushman, Realty Man, Dead, The New York Times, March 20, 1952, pg. 29.
  5. ^ J.S. Cushman Hurt In Auto Collision, The New York Times, September 18, 1934, pg. 46.
  6. ^ Aids Presbyterian Drive, The New York Times, January 15, 1939, pg. 35.
  7. ^ A Bumper Crop Of New Hotels Erected Throughout Country, The New York Times, January 11, 1925, pg. RE1.
  8. ^ a b Lexington Av. Hotel To Cost $5,000,000, The New York Times, October 2, 1926, pg. 33.
  9. ^ Allerton Interests Buying Site, The New York Times, December 11, 1923, pg. 37.
  10. ^ Silver Lunch Leases Times Square Space, The New York Times, March 23, 1927, pg. 44.
  11. ^ Club Hotel Added To Allerton Chain, The New York Times, September 28, 1942, pg. 28.
  12. ^ Hotel Chain Is Formed, The New York Times, October 22, 1958, pg. 49.
  13. ^ "Manhattan Boutique Hotel Emerges as Renaissance New York Hotel 57 After a $40 Million Redesign".
  14. ^ Vassar Graduate Tries Suicide Leap, The New York Times, May 24, 1929, pg. 25.
  15. ^ Women's Club Opens New Headquarters, The New York Times, May 18, 1956, pg. 14.
  16. ^ Newborn Baby Girl Is Found In a Welfare Hotel's Garbage, The New York Times, February 19, 1990, pg. B4.

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