Royalton Hotel

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Royalton Hotel
Royalton Hotel
General information
Location	44 West 44th Street, New York City
Opening	1898
Owner	Morgans Hotel Group
Technical details
Floor count	16
Design and construction
Architect	Rossiter & Wright
Other information
Number of rooms	90 apartments in 1898, 168 rooms in 1988
Website
Royalton Hotel

The Royalton Hotel is located just east of Times Square in Manhattan at 44 West 44th Street.

The building was built in 1898 as the exclusive residential Hotel Royalton. Rossiter & Wright was the architecture firm commissioned, and the contractor was E. F. Dodson & Company.^[1] Its design was unusual because it was one of the first buildings to enable street-level passage from one block to the next. As originally designed, tenants had apartments overlooking 43rd or 44th Street, while servants lived in rooms overlooking the airshafts along the sides of the building.

Royalton was designed to mirror the 1920s concept of a hotel lobby. It was reopened as the Royalton Hotel on October 10, 1988. It was the first hotel designed by Philippe Starck.^[2]

Among the prominent residents of the Royalton were the humorist Robert Benchley and the theatre critic George Jean Nathan.

Royalton is now part of the collection of hotels. During the summer of 2007, the Morgans Hotel Group decided to renovate the hotel to update the interior. The hotel reopened on October 1, 2007.

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Coordinates: 40°45′21″N 73°58′55″W / 40.755844°N 73.981864°W / 40.755844; -73.981864

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