About This Item

  • TitleHotel St. George
  • Call NumberNEIG_1460
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1452, NEIG 1453, NEIG 1456, NEIG 1459, NEIG 1462), some of which may also be described in this new record; Six architectural renderings, in three different sizes, of the Hotel St. George, a very large, high-rise buildings located on Clark Street in Brooklyn Heights. With 2,632 rooms, it was the largest hotel in New York City, and the second largest hotel in the country, for many years. Two of the images are not dated.
  • Date1923, 1933, 1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • Note1453, 1456, 1460, and 1462 (retouched) are identical. Date inscribed on verso: 1452: Aug. 12/23; 1459: Oct. 26/41; 1460: Jan. 22/41; 1462: June 28/33. Title from typed captions on versos of 1452, 1453, and 1456.
  • SubjectHotel St. George (New York, N.Y.) ; Hotels -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.