Rossmore Hotel and Hotel Metropole
The Rossmore Hotel stood at 1457 - 1461 Broadway, between 41st and 42nd streets. It opened in 1876. Later, the hotel was renamed Hotel Metropole, Rivers Hotel and Hotel Saranac.
The 7-story hotel was designed by architect John B. Snook, who also designed the Grand Central Depot on 42nd Street, corner of Fourth Avenue.
Construction of the Rossmore Hotel began about 1873 under the supervision of George Ross. It opened on February 8, 1876. Charles E. Leland & Co. was the proprietor. The company was also the proprietor of the Delavan House, in Albany N.Y., and the Clarendon Hotel, in Saratoga Springs. After about two years Hawley D. Clapp, formerly proprietor of the Everett House, assumed as proprietor of the Rossmore.
The hotel was renovated and renamed the Hotel Metropole by proprietors George T. Putney and George Green in 1889. In 1898 it was renamed the Rivers Hotel when Colonel Robert E. Rivers of New Orleans leased the hostelry. The Rossmore Hotel name was used again in 1900 when George Putney reassumed control from Colonel Rivers. In 1907 it was called the Hotel Saranac. Another sale in 1907 could not revive business even with modernization and more renamings such as the Cafe de l’Opera and the Cafe de Paris. In 1915 the vacant hotel changed hands again. Brokaw Brothers a retail clothing titan, demolished the hotel and moved their business into their new eleven story building on the former hotel site in 1916.
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Hotel Metropole (Rossmore) from Longacre Square, about 1898.
The two buildings in 1899. They once formed the Hotel metropole / Rossmore Hotel (Pictorial Description of Broadway).
Rossmore Hotel on the west side of Broadway, looking south from 42nd Street, about the 1880s. The adjoining 4-story building, on the right, became later part of the hotel, as Hotel Metropole.
