Webster Hotel | |
Location: | 40 West 45th Street, New York, New York |
Coordinates: | 40.7558°N -73.9813°W |
Built: | 1902 |
Architect: | Tracy & Swartwout |
Architecture: | Classical Revival |
Added: | September 7, 1984 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 84002806 |
Designated Other1: | New York State Register of Historic Places |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Designated Other1 Number: | 06101.001789 |
Designated Other1 Abbr: | NYSRHP |
Designated Other1 Date: | August 3, 1984 |
The Webster Hotel is located in New York City. The building was built in 1902 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 1984. It was designed by the architectural firm of Tracy and Swartwout, and built in the Classical Revival style.
It functions today as The Midtown Executive Club, it is also marketed as a hotel to the general public under the name Club Quarters, Midtown.
Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez stayed with his family in the Webster Hotel during a period when he moved from Havana to New York City to work for Cuban press agency Prensa Latina.[1]
The hotel was the first marital home of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor while he attended Columbia Law School.