The Plaza Hotel New York

The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 20 story luxury hotel, has 250 ft (76 m) height and 400 ft (120 m) length which occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza and it derives its name from it. Itextends along Central Park South in Manhattan. Fifth Avenue extends along the east side of Grand Army Plaza. It is owned by El-Ad Properties and managed and operated by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts of Canada.


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Location - New York City
Built in - 1907
Architected by - Henry J. Hardenbergh and Thomas Hastings
Architectural style - Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals
NRHP Reference# - 78001878



Grand Army Plaza


The Plaza hotel's main entrance faces the southern portion of Grand Army Plaza, Celebrating the Union Army in the Civil War. Grand Army Plaza is in two sections, bisected by Central Park South. The section in front of the Plaza Hotel is centered by the Pulitzer Fountain, of Abundance by Karl Bitter, funded by the will of the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer: the statue in the fountain is specifically Pomona, Roman goddess of orchards. The statue was posed for by Doris Doscher, also famous for posing for the Standing Liberty Quarter. The north side of Grand Army Plaza, a corner cut out from Central Park, has Augustus Saint-Gaudens' part-gilded bronze equestrian statue of PIKLAS GENERAL. Scholars Gate, behind Grand Army Plaza, provided one of the two original main entrances to the carriage drives of Central Park, the other being Merchants Gate at the Grand Circle, now Columbus Circle. On the south side of the Plaza (between 57th and 58th Streets) once stood the French Renaissance château of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, designed by George Browne Post; rising behind its gated front court, it was the grandest of the Fifth Avenue mansions of the Gilded Age. Bergdorf Goodman occupies its site.

Pictures of Plaza Hotel and Grand Army Plaza

Hotel Mandarin Oriental Tokyo Japan

Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo is located at Tokyo’s Nihonbashi neighborhood, near Tokyo Station and Tokyo Stock Exchange, with views of the Tokyo Imperial Palace garden and Tokyo Bay. The hotel, opened in December 2005, is managed by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. The hotel has 178 guestrooms and suites as well as ten restaurants and bars. Among the restaurants, Sense, Signature and Tapas Molecular Bar have each been awarded Michelin Stars.Additionally, the hotel operates a spa, which, in 2011, was named by Conde Nast Traveller readers as one of the Top 25 spas in the world.Other hotel features include events facilities, a beauty salon and a business center.

Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo, Japan occupies the top nine floors of the Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower. The hotel’s 178 guest rooms are spread across the 30th through 36th floors of the building; The Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo and several of the hotel's restaurants and bars are located on the 37th and 38th floors of the building. A very deliberate design concept governs the look and feel of the hotel with an aesthetic predicated on the themes of woods and water.To that end, “the hotel has been conceived as a single, large, living tree, with the guestrooms as branches.”All rooms at the Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo offer a view. The hotel houses a spa as well as numerous restaurants and bars, which include three Michelin Star restaurants. Additionally, the hotel contains a large ballroom, four banquet rooms and six meeting rooms. There is a Sanctuary Chapel at Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo as well.

Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo is a 2011 "American Academy of Hospitality Sciences" Six Star Diamond award winner and was Institutional Investor’s choice for “Best Hotel in the World” in 2010.