2109 Broadway - Ansonia Hotel

2109 Broadway (Ansonia Hotel)

Date: 1899-1904

Type: Apartment-Hotel

Architect: Paul E. M. DuBoy

Developer/Owner/Builder: William Earl Dodge Stokes

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Individual Landmark

Landmark Designation Report: Ansonia Hotel

Primary Style: French Beaux-Arts

Façade (primary material): Brick

Stories: 17 with basement

This apartment-hotel in the grand French Beaux Arts style occupies the entire blockfront on the west side of Broadway between 73rd and 74th Streets.  It rises on its conspicuous site to a height of seventeen stories.  Built at the turn of the century, with over three hundred suites, it was at that time one of the largest apartment-hotels in the world.  The Ansonia is a symbol of an era of opulence and elegance and still stands as one of the truly grand buildings of Manhattan’s West Side.