Scheffel Hall

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Coordinates: 40°44′08″N 73°59′09″W / 40.73545°N 73.985818°W / 40.73545; -73.985818
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Scheffel Hall (2010)

Scheffel Hall at 190

Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, a German poet and novelist. It later became known as Allaire's,[1] a name still inscribed on the building. The building's style has been described as "German-American eclectic Renaissance Revival".[2]

Later, in the late 1920s, the building was used by the German-American Athletic Club. By 1939 it became the German-American Rathskeller,[1] and then Joe King's Rathskeller. O. Henry used Scheffel Hall as the setting for "The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss" and wrote some of his stories there.[1] Beginning in the 1970s, it was the home of Fat Tuesday's, a well-known jazz club, and the restaurant Tuesday's, which lasted until the early 21st century. In subsequent years it was a yoga and pilates studio and today is unoccupied.

Scheffel Hall was designated a

New York City landmark in 1997.[3]

Plastic stir-stick from Joe King's Rathskeller, circa 1966.

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  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-60354-055-1
    . (Reprinted by Scholarly Press, 1976; often referred to as WPA Guide to New York City.)
  2. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5
    . p.205
  3. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1
    .


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