Hotel Albert (New York City)

Hotel Albert
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The original Hotel Albert in 2023, at 40 East 11th Street
Hotel Albert Show map of Lower Manhattan Hotel Albert Show map of New York Hotel Albert Show map of the United States
Location	23 E. 10th St., New York City
Coordinates	40°43′58″N73°59′37″W / 40.73278°N 73.99361°W / 40.73278; -73.99361
Area	0.64 acres (0.26 ha)
Built	c. 1876 (1876)-1877, 1883, 1891, 1903-1904
Architect	James Irving Howard; Henry J. Hardenbergh; Buchman & Fox; William L. Bottomley with Sugarman, Hess & Berger.
Architectural style	Renaissance, French Renaissance, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	12000329 [1]
Added to NRHP	June 13, 2012

Hotel Albert, also known as The Albert and Albert Apartments, is a historic hotel and apartment complex located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The hotel was noted for being popular among artists, musicians, writers, and political radicals. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. ^[1]

History

The Albert began with three row houses at 32-36 East 11th Street, off of University Place, which were turned into the St. Stephen Hotel in 1876–1877 to designs by James Irving Howard. The owner, Albert S. Rosenbaum, then commissioned architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh to build 24 "French flats" (luxury apartments) between the hotel and University Place. Completed in 1883, they were converted into the Hotel Albert in 1886–1887. An additional story was added in 1891, and the two hotels merged in the mid-1890s. In 1903–1904, a 12-story building was added to the south at 67 University Place, designed by Buchman & Fox, and in 1922–1924 a six-story building on the corner at 23 East 10th Street, designed by William L. Bottomley and Sugarman, Hess & Berger, while the St. Stephen was given an entirely new facade in the 1920s, and let go for commercial lease. In 1977 the entire complex, including the St. Stephen, was converted to rental apartments as The Albert. It was then converted to a co-op in 1984. ^[2]

In 2009, the co-op board of The Albert commissioned historian Anthony W. Robins to research the history of the buildings. ^[3]

References

1. "National Register of Historic Places Listings" (PDF). Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 6/11/12 through 6/15/12. National Park Service. June 22, 2012.
2. Anthony Robbins (September 2011). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Hotel Albert. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 10, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
3. Gray, Christopher (April 15, 2011). "The Albert Hotel Addresses Its Myths - Streetscapes". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved September 26, 2019.