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| St. Regis New York | |
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 The hotel's Fifth Avenue facade in 2021 | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 2 East 55th Street Manhattan, New York |
| Coordinates | 40°45′41″N 73°58′29″W / 40.76139°N 73.97472°W |
| Opened | September 4, 1904 |
| Owner | Qatar Investment Authority |
| Management | Marriott International (St. Regis Hotels & Resorts) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 20 |
| Design and construction | |
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| Developer | John Jacob Astor IV |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 171 |
| Number of suites | 67 |
| Number of restaurants | 2 |
| Website | |
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| Designated | November 1, 1988 |
| Reference no. | 1552 |
The St. Regis New York is a historic luxury hotel at 2 East 55th Street, at the southeast corner with Fifth Avenue, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The hotel was originally developed by John Jacob Astor IV and was completed in 1904 to designs by Trowbridge & Livingston. An annex to the east was designed by Sloan & Robertson and completed in 1927. The hotel is operated by Marriott International and holds Forbes five-star and AAA five-diamond ratings. In addition, it is a New York City designated landmark.
The 18-story hotel was designed in the Beaux-Arts style. The facade of the original hotel is made of limestone and is divided into three horizontal sections similar to the components of a column, namely a base, shaft, and capital. The St. Regis required a large amount of mechanical equipment, which was placed on three basement levels. When the St. Regis opened, the interior was extensively decorated in marble and bronze. The first floor contained a restaurant, café, palm court, and hotel office, while the second floor contained a banquet hall, ballroom, and private dining room.
Astor began constructing the hotel in 1901 and named it after Upper St. Regis Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. The hotel opened on September 4, 1904, and quickly became known as an upscale hostelry. Rudolph Haan operated the hotel from its opening until 1926. Astor's son Vincent Astor sold the St. Regis in 1927 to Benjamin Newton Duke, who developed the annex. After an acrimonious dispute in 1934, Vincent Astor re-acquired the hotel the next year and continued to own it until his death in 1959. The hotel was sold several times in the early 1960s, and Cesar Balsa operated the hotel briefly before the St. Regis joined the Sheraton Hotels and Resorts chain in 1966. The St. Regis has been renovated several times over the years, and it became part of the Marriott chain in 2016. The Qatar Investment Authority bought the hotel building in 2019.