Visitors Could Stay At These New York City Hotels In 1877

We’ve provided lists like this twice before for New York’s hotels in 1882 and 1964.

This is useful to someone researching or wondering about where the New York City hotels of 1877 were located.

This compilation  comes from The Practical Guide To New York City and Brooklyn by Henry Morford; Union News Company and Lee, Shephard and Dillingham( 1877).

The advertisement for Stevens House from the book shows a rate of $1.00 per day for a single room. Double occupancy at most hotels ran between $1.00 to $2.00.

One thing to take note of is that 38 of the 98 hotels are on Broadway. The city’s population was concentrated below 23rd street. Few hotels are above Madison Square. And the majority of hotels were located below Union Square and 14th Street.

Nearly 150 years later none of these hotels is still in business, although Gilsey House on Broadway and 29th Street still stands but is now an apartment building.

While this list does not contain every hotel in the city, it does have all the reputable hotels and their addresses. (Editor’s note- we have left the spelling intact as it appears in the guidebook.)

Aberdeen – Broadway and 21st street
Albemarle – Broadway and 24th street
Arlington – 22 East 14th street
Ashland – Fourth avenue and 24th street
Astor – 221 Broadway
Astor Place – 25 Third avenue
Belmont – 137 Fulton street
Belvidere – Irving Place and 15th street
Berkeley – Fifth avenue and Ninth street
Brandreth – Broadway and Canal street
Brevoort – 11 Fifth avenue
Broadway – Broadway and 42d street
Buckingham – Fifth avenue and 50th street
Clarendon – 64 Union Square
Clifford – 26th street and Broadway.
Coleman – Broadway and 27th street.
Continental – 904 Broadway
Cosmopolitan – Chambers street and West Broadway
Crittenden – Broadway and 26th street
Crook’s – 84 Chatham street.
Delmonico’s – Fifth avenue, 28th street and Broadway
Earle’s – Canal and Centre streets
Eastern – Corner Whitehall and South streets
Everett – Fourth avenue and 17th street
Fifth Avenue – Fifth avenue and 23d street
Frankfort – Frankfort and William streets
French’s – 1 Chatham street
Fulton Ferry House – Corner Fulton and South streets
Gilsey – Broadway and 29th street
Glenham – 155 Fifth avenue
Gramercy Park – Gramercy Park, East 21st street
Grand – Broadway and 31st street
Grand Central – 671 Broadway
Grand Union – Fourth avenue and 41st street
Grosvenor – 37 Fifth avenue
Hoffman – 1111 Broadway
Hoyt – 759 Broadway
Hotel Branting – Madison avenue and 58th street
Hotel Brunswick – 225 Fifth avenue
Hotel Espanola – 21 East Fourth street
Hotel Monico – 23 East 17th street
Hotel Royal – Sixth avenue and 40th street .
Hotel St. Germain – Fifth avenue and 22d street
International – 17 and 19 Park Row
Irving – 49 East 12th street
Leggett’s – 48 Chatham street
Libby – 386 Fourth avenue

Marlborough – Sixth avenue and 38th street
Merchants’ – 39 Cortlandt street
Metropolitan – 586 Broadway
Monument – 6 Union Square
National – 5 Cortlandt street
New England – Bowery and Bayard street
New York – 721 Broadway
Occidental – Broome street and Bowery
Pacific – 172 Greenwich street
Parker – Broadway and 34th street
Park – Beekman and Nassau streets
Prescott – Broadway and Spring street
Putnam – Fourth avenue, near 27th street
Revere – 606 Broadway
Rossmore – Broadway and 42d street
Saint Charles – 648 Broadway
Saint Cloud – Broadway and 42d street
Saint Denis – Broadway and 11th street
Saint James – 1133 Broadway
Saint Julien – 4 Washington Place
Saint Germain – 1 East 22d street
Saint Nicholas – 515 Broadway
Saint Omer – Sixth avenue and 23d street
Sinclair – 754 Broadway
Sixth Avenue – 777 and 779 Sixth avenue
Smith & McNell’s – 197 Washington and 198 Greenwich streets
Southern – 679 Broadway
Spingler – 5 Union Square
Stacy – 760 Broadway
Steele’s – Greenwich and Duane streets
Stevens – 23 Broadway
St. Stephen’s – 11th street, near Broadway
Sturtevant – 1186 Broadway
Sweeney’s – Chambers and Chatham streets
Torrilhon – 344 Sixth avenue
Tremont – 665 Broadway
Tyler – Broadway and 12th street
Union – 465 Fourth avenue
Union Place – Broadway and 14th street
Union Square – 16 Union Square
United States – Fulton and Pearl streets
University – 27 Waverley Place
Van Dyke’s – Chatham and South streets
Van Dyke House – Bowery and Bayard street
Washington –  1 Broadway
Webb – 42d street and Fifth avenue
West End – Washington Heights
West Side – Sixth avenue and 15th street
Westminster  – Irving Place and 16th street
Winchester – Broadway and 31st street
Windsor – Fifth avenue and 46th street