Iyo Algonquin Hotel: Zvirinani kupfuura iyo maPuritan

Iyo Algonquin Hotel yaive yakarongwa pekutanga sehotera yekugara ine pfungwa yekurendesa makamuri asina fenicha uye masuti pazvivakwa zvegore kune vanogara zvachose. Pakabhadharwa marezenisi mashoma, muridzi akafunga kuichinja kuita hotera inopfuura nguva, iyo yaaida kupa zita rekuti "The Puritan." Frank Case, maneja maneja wekutanga, akaramba uye akaudza muridzi "izvi ... zvinopesana nemweya wekuchengetedza dzimba. Kutonhora, kurambidza uye kuora. Handizvifarire. ” Muridzi paakapindura achiti, "Unofunga kuti wakangwara, toti ukawana zita riri nani," Mhosva yakaenda kuraibhurari yeruzhinji kuti inzwe kuti ndivanaani vaive vekutanga uye vane simba munzvimbo ino. Akagumburwa neAlgonquins, akafarira shoko iri, akafarira nzira yainokwana nayo muromo, uye akakunda pasabhuku kuti agamuchire.

Iyo Algonquin Hotel yakagadzirirwa neyakagadzirwa naGoldwin Starrett ane 181 makamuri. General Manager Frank Case akafungisisa chibvumirano muna 1907 ndokuzotenga hotera muna 1927. Case akaramba ari muridzi nemaneja kusvika parufu rwake muna 1946.

Iyo yakakurumbira Algonquin Round Tafura yakatangwa naGeneral Manager Nyaya neboka revatambi veNew York City, vatapi venhau, veruzhinji, vatsoropodzi nevanyori vaisangana zuva nezuva masikati vachitanga munaJune 1919. Vakasangana kwechikamu chiri nani chemakore gumi muPergola Kamuri. (yava kunzi Oak Kamuri). Nhengo dzeCharter dzaisanganisira Franklin P. Adams, munyori wenhau; Robert Benchley, mutambi uye mutambi; Heywood Broun, munyori wenhau uye munyori wemitambo; Marc Connelly, mutambi wemitambo; George S. Kaufman, munyori wemitambo uye director; Dorothy Parker, mudetembi uye munyori; Harold Ross, mupepeti weNew Yorker; Robert Sherwood, munyori uye munyori wemitambo; John Peter Toohey, mutori wenhau; naAlexander Woollcott, mutsoropodzi uye mutori wenhau. Na 1930, yekutanga Round Table nhengo dzakange dzapararira, asi iyo inonzi "Vicious Circle" yakaramba iri mhenyu mune yakadzikama uye inonakidza ndangariro. Paakabvunzwa kuti chii chakaitika paRound Tafura, Frank Case aipindura "Chii chakaitika kudziva riri paFifth Avenue uye 42nd Street? Zvinhu izvi hazvigare nekusingaperi. Round Round yakagara kwenguva yakareba kupfuura chero kumwe kuungana kusina kurongeka kwandinoziva. ” Mhosva yakaenderera. “Ndinoziva hapana rimwe (boka) uko chikamu chebudiriro chaive chakanyanya. Paive pasina kana murume pakati pavo akatadza kuisa zita rake pakakwirira mumunda maaishanda, uye kunyangwe ini ndaive ndakasununguka, ndichitora zvese zvinhu sezvazviri, ini ndakanga ndisiri benzi zvakakwana kuti ndisaone kuti yaive yakatarwa pfuma kuhotera nenzira yebhizinesi, uye kugara ndichifara wega kwandiri kuve nechokwadi chekambani yakanaka mazuva ese. Izvo, ndinofunga, ndechimwe chezvinhu zvinonakidza zvekuchengetwa kwehotera kunyanya kana hotera yako iri diki; shamwari dzakanaka, hurukuro yakanaka, uye kwakawanda kusagadzikana kwehupenyu. Hautombofaniri kuita chero kuedza; inounzwa yakatsva zuva nezuva, mari dzabhadharwa. ”

Muna Gumiguru 1946, Ben naMary Bodne weCharleston, SC, vakatenga Algonquin kweinopfuura $ 1 miriyoni chete. Vakanga vadanana nehotera pahoneymoon yavo. Panguva yekugara kwavo, vakaona Will Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Sinclair Lewis, Eddie Cantor naBeatrice Lily. Kune aimbove Mary Mazo (Bodne), iyo Algonquin yaive kero yekupedzisira mune odyssey iyo yakatanga muOdessa, Ukraine, kwaaive mwana wechipiri mumhuri huru yechiJuda yakatiza nhomba paakanga achiri mucheche. Mhuri yeMazo yakatamira kuCharleston, uko baba vake Elihu vakavhura chikafu chekutanga chevaJudha. Apo George Gershwin naDu Bose Heyward vaishanda pa "Porgy naBess, ivo vaigara vari vatengi. Ivo vaizokurukurawo nezve kugadzirwa kwechiratidziro pamanheru mumhuri yemhuri yeMazo. Makumi emakore gare gare, iyo Mazo tsika yekugamuchira vaeni yaizoenderera kuAlgonquin. Mary Bodne akabika muto wehuku kuna Laurence Olivier airwara, uye anochengeta mwana kuna Simone Signoret, uyo akamuti "mumwe weshamwari dzangu nhatu dzakatetepa."

Iwo maBodnes akaridza mutambo kuchizvarwa chitsva chevanyori uye vanoratidza vane mukurumbira vebhizimusi - semunyori John Henry Falk, paakarongerwa mazita nekudzingwa kuHollywood. Alan Jay Lerner naFrederick Loewe vakaita ruzha rwakanyanya vachishanda pamimhanzi nyowani zvekuti vamwe vaenzi vakanyunyuta: iyo showa yaive yakabudirira kwazvo "My Fair Lady."

VaBodne, avo vakafa muna 1992, vakati vanozotengesa Algonquin kana ichida maelevhe ekuzvishandira. Akaitengesa muna 1987 kuAoki Corporation, mubatsiri weBrazil wekambani yeJapan iyo yakaisa maelevista ekuzvishandira muna 1991. Muna 1997, Aoki akatengesa hotera iyi kuCambridge Hotel Company iyo yakatanga kugadzirisa mamiriyoni mana emadhora. Mutungamiri wekambani akaberekerwa kuBritish, Ian Lloyd-Jones, akahaya mugadziri wemukati Alexandra Champalimaud kuti avandudze nzvimbo dzeruzhinji pasina kuparadza manzwiro nehunhu hwenhoroondo yeAlgonquin.

Muna 2002, Miller Global Properties yakatenga hotera uye ndokuhaya Destination Hotels uye Resorts kuti igadzirise nekuvandudza mashandiro ayo. Semuenzaniso, vakagadza cheka-kumucheto komputa cheki- mudhatabhesi iyo inotora pakarepo zvido zvemunhu zvekuuya kwevaenzi. Ichitevera kugadziridzwa kwemamiriyoni matatu emadhora, hotera iyi yakatengeswa zvakare muna3 kuHEI Hotels & Resorts, muridzi uye mushandi wemamwe makumi maviri nemashanu ekushandira. HEI yakatanga $ 2005 mamirioni ekugadziridza kusimudzira nzvimbo yekutandarira, iyo Oak Kamuri yekudyira uye cabaret, iyo Blue Bar, iyo inozivikanwa Round Round Kamuri uye ese masuti uye dzimba dzevaeni.

Iyo Algonquin yakasarudzwa a New York City Historic Landmark muna 1987 neNational Literarymarkmark neShamwari dzeLibrari USA muna 1996. Algonquin nhoroondo yevaenzi rondedzero ndiAni Ndiani mutsika dzepasi; Irving Berlin, Charlie Chaplin, William Faulkner, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Laughton, Maya Angelou, Angela Lansbury, Harpo Marx, Brendan Behan, Noel Coward, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Tom Stoppard, pakati pevamwe vakawanda.

Munguva pfupi yapfuura, Oak Room yehotera yakaratidza Harry Connick, Jr., Andrea, Marcovicci, Diana Krall, Peter Cinotti, Michael Feinstein, Jane Monheit, Steve Ross, Sandy Stewart naBill Charlap, Barbara Carroll, Maude Maggart, Karen Akers vamwe.

Kana Frank Case, wekutanga General Manager (uye gare gare muridzi) weAlgonquin akanyora memoir yake. "Tales of a Wayward Inn" muna 1938, akakumbira makumi matatu evashanyi kuti vanyore ndangariro dzavo. Vakakurumbira ndiJack Barrymore, Rex Beach, Louis Bromfield, Irvin S. Cobb, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, HL Mencken, Robert Nathan, Frank Sullivan, Louis Untermayer, Henrik Willen Van Loon. Nekudaro, mudzimai waFrank Case Bertha aive neshoko rekupedzisira, Akanyora kuti:

October 10, 1938

Anodiwa Frankie,

Mataurirwo etsamba yetsamba kwauri kubva kushamwari haigone kunganzi munhu kugogodza; pachokwadi ndichiaverenga ndinofunga nezvemariro apo shamwari dzemushakabvu dzakataura zvinopenya, zvakakwana, zvemufi zvekuti (chirikadzi) yaigara pakati pevanochema, yakasendamira pamwanakomana wavo mudiki, achiti, "Tommy, mhanya zvino, tarisa uone kuti ndibaba vako here vari mubhokisi. ”

Musi waSeptember 21, 2010, Algonquin Hotel yakazivisa kubatana kwayo neAutograph Kuunganidzwa, iyo Marriott Hotel Unganidzo.

Stanley Turkel yakasarudzwa sa2014 uye 2015 Nhoroondo yeGore neHistoric Hotels of America, chirongwa chepamutemo cheNational Trust for Historic Preservation. Turkel ndiye anonyanya kutsikiswa -anopa mazano muhotera muUnited States. Iye anoshanda yake yekutarisisa hotera tsika achishanda sehunyanzvi chapupu mune zvine chekuita nehotera zviitiko, inopa asset manejimendi uye hotera franchising kubvunza. Iye anozivikanwa saMaster Hotel Supplier Emeritus neiyo Educational Institute yeAmerican Hotel uye Lodging Association. [email inodzivirirwa] 917-628-8549

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