Author: Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com
Brown Palace Hotel: Built on a Cow Pasture
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- May 23, 2020The Brown Palace Hotel opened in 1892 with an eight-story atrium designed by architect Frank E. Edbrooke (1840-1921). More than ... Read More
Four Seasons Hotel NY Now Housing Medical Professionals
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- May 2, 2020Is it possible to conceive that the Four Seasons Hotel in New York has been converted to house medical professionals ... Read More
Admiral Fell Inn: 4-Story-High Skyscraper
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- April 11, 2020Fell’s Point was founded in the early 1700s when the Fell Brothers arrived from Lancaster, England. Edward was a shopkeeper ... Read More
The Barbizon Hotel in New York was Once Only for Women
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- March 21, 2020The Barbizon Hotel for Women was built in 1927 as a residential hotel and clubhouse for single women who came ... Read More
Carlyle Hotel: A Living Legend that Embodies the Spirit of New York
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- February 29, 2020The Carlyle Hotel was built by Moses Ginsberg and designed in Art Deco style by architects Sylvan Bien (1893-1959) and ... Read More
Peninsula Hotel New York: Recalling the golden age of luxury hotels
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- February 9, 2020On February 7, 1989, the Peninsula Hotel was designated as a Landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission. The ... Read More
Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama: The Gathering Place
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- January 18, 2020The site on which The Grand Hotel sits today has seen two earlier hotels so named, and the area surrounding ... Read More
Red Lion Inn Nearly Demolished for Gas Station
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- December 28, 2019Hotel History For more than 246 years, the Red Lion Inn has been welcoming visitors to the Berkshires with traditional ... Read More
Hotel History: The Wales Hotel
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- December 7, 2019One of the most charming historic hotels in New York, the Wales Hotel is closing its doors in 2020. It ... Read More
Hotel History: YMCA of Greater New York
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- November 17, 2019Do you know that there is a 167-year old organization located in New York City which owns and operates more ... Read More
Hotel History: Hotel Florence – elegance and beautiful design
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- October 26, 2019The Hotel Florence is a former operating hotel located in the Pullman Historic District on the far south side of ... Read More
Hotel History: The Heathman Hotel
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- October 5, 2019The original Heathman Hotel was built in 1926 one block from the current structure by George Heathman for $1 million. ... Read More
Hotel History: Josh Billings on hotels 148 years ago
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- September 14, 2019Josh Billings was the pen name of the 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885). He was a famous ... Read More
Hotel History: Hotelier Raymond Orteig meets Mail Pilot Charles Lindbergh
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- August 24, 2019Raymond Orteig (1870-1934) was the New York City hotel owner who offered the $25,000 Orteig Prize to the first aviator ... Read More
Hotel History: Catskill Mountain Resort Hotels – phenomenon unlike any other
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- August 3, 2019This is the story of an area of 250 square miles, approximately an hour-and-a-half drive northwest of New York City, ... Read More
Hotel History: Hotel Man of the Half Century awarded 22 years after death
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- July 13, 2019In 1950, the hotel industry named Ellsworth Milton Statler “Hotel Man of the Half Century,” even though he had been ... Read More
TWA back at JFK Airport: Sleep quietly
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- June 22, 2019On May 15, 2019, New York’s spectacular new TWA Hotel opened at John F. Kennedy International Airport. At a cost ... Read More
Hotel History: Shepheard’s Hotel in Cairo known for opulence, famous guests, and the military
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- June 8, 2019Shepheard’s Hotel history goes back 178 years when it was originally built by Englishman Samuel Shepheard in Cairo. It was ... Read More
Hotel del Coronado: One of the most popular beach resorts in the US
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- April 27, 2019The renowned Hotel del Coronado is a grand example of elegant Victorian architecture providing one of the most beautiful and ... Read More
Hotel History: Asian American Hotel Owners Association?
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- April 6, 2019The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) is a trade association that represents hotel owners. As of 2018, AAHOA has ... Read More
John Q. Hammons: Master hotel developer and builder
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- March 16, 2019One of the great hoteliers/developers of our time, John Q. Hammons developed 200 hotel properties in 40 states. But mere ... Read More
Hotel History: The Americana of New York
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- February 23, 2019The Americana of New York opened on September 25, 1962 as a 2,000-room convention hotel. It was constructed by brothers ... Read More
Hotel history: The Grand on Mackinac Island still thriving after 132 years
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- February 2, 2019The "Grand" as it is called on the island, is a historic coastal resort with a spectacular 660-foot long, three-story ... Read More
Hotel history: Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- December 22, 2018Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was a pioneering American woman architect and interior designer whose distinct architectural knowledge was steeped in ... Read More
From pot walloper to hotel maven: Frederick Henry Harvey
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- December 1, 2018With foresight and entrepreneurship, Fred Harvey, an immigrant from England, built up business ventures that included hotels and restaurants. Read More
The Skirvin Hotel: Oldest hotel in Oklahoma
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- October 20, 2018On September 26, 1911, the ornate Skirvin Hotel was opened for public inspection in Oklahoma in the United States. Read More
The Grande Dame of Washington: Hotel of Presidents
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- September 29, 2018The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC opened on February 18, 1925 with 440 guestrooms. It is known as the “Grande Dame ... Read More
Hotel history: Swiss hotelier and chef de cuisine run revolutionary Savoy
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- August 11, 2018Cesar Ritz, Swiss hotelier, and chef de cuisine, Auguste Escoffier, were invited to run the revolutionary new Savoy Hotel in ... Read More
Hotel history: The art of hospitality
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- July 21, 2018Fanciful prediction; “turnpike;” pineapple as hospitality; Hokusai, the Japanese printmaker – examples of ways hospitality plays into hotels. Read More
Hotel History: Jefferson Hotel, U.S. Grant Hotel, The Montauk Manor, and The Jung Hotel
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- June 30, 2018Some years ago, I served as the hotel consultant to the Sybedon Corporation, a New York-based real estate firm that ... Read More
Hotel history: Ralph Hitz – Contact the hell out of ‘em
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- June 16, 2018The hotel business has seen many fine promoters and salesmen but perhaps none as creative as Ralph Hitz. His two ... Read More
Hotel history: The Broadmoor hotel, Colorado Springs
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- May 26, 2018For over a century, dreamers, farmers, investors, and even a Prussian Count have held a vision of the magnificence in ... Read More
Hotel history: The Elephantine Colossus Hotel
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- May 5, 2018When Coney Island went from a sandbar resort in Brooklyn to the city’s biggest beachfront playground in the 1880s, all ... Read More
Hotel history: John McEntee Bowman – builder of the Biltmore chain
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- April 21, 2018During his lifetime career as a hotel developer and operator, John Bowman was a horse lover and a thoroughbred racing ... Read More
Hotel history: President of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotel Corporation (1875-1931)
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- March 24, 2018John McEntee Bowman, president of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotel Corporation, had no easy boyhood. Born in 1875 in Toronto to Irish-Scottish ... Read More
Hotel history: The Negro motorist Green Book
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- March 11, 2018This series of AAA-like guides for black travelers was published by Victor H. Green from 1936 through 1966. It listed ... Read More
