Between 5 and 6 o'clock yesterday morning flames broke out in the kitchen basement of Scharfenberg's Hotel at Montclair, N.J. They spread with great rapidity, and in a few minutes the whole of the ...

GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HYGEIA HOTEL AT OLD POINT COMFORT. Share full article. ... See the article in its original context from February 25, 1882, Page 5 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

At a height of 563 feet, the iconic hotel is a 51-storied skyscraper. 4. In 1874, Harry Helmsley, a developer, proposed a 55-storey hotel at the site of the Villard Houses, to be called the ...