New York Hotel | |
Coordinates: | 40.7617°N -111.8919°W |
Built: | 1906 |
Architect: | Kletting,Richard K.A. |
Added: | March 10, 1980 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 80003933 |
The New York Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, at 42 Post Office Pl., was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
It was a work of leading Salt Lake City architect Richard K.A. Kletting.
It is a three-story brick building designed to have shops on the ground floor and 62 hotel rooms above. Some hotel room suites had bathrooms; there were also single rooms served by a bathroom on each floor. It was "completely modern" in 1906, having both steam heat and electric lights.
The building is 49feet tall; the first/second/third floors are 14feet, 10feet, and 10.5feet tall, respectively.[1]
It was built as a luxury hotel for Orange J. Salisbury, a mining engineer and businessman who obtained patents and started the United Filter Corporation.[2]