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Chelsea Hotel in History: Built in 1884, the hotel started out as a co-op apartment building and was, surprisingly enough, the city's tallest building for more than a decade. In 1905, after the co-op went bankrupt, the Chelsea turned into a hotel and quickly became the favorite lodging (or hangout) for a number of notable visitors to New York over the course of the 20th century, including Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs and Andy Warhol. Address: 222 West 23rd Street |
1750
Chelsea estate built
Captain Thomas Clarke, a veteran officer of the French-Indian Wars gave the name
of Chelsea to his country-seat--an estate on the shores of the Hudson, two and
three miles north of the town of New York. It was on 23rd between 9th & 10th
Avenues.
1777
British shoot Clarke House
A British frigate shoots a cannonball through the Moore house, at that time used
to billet Revolutionary troops
1813
Clement C. Moore develops Chelsea
Mr. Moore, author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas," expanded the Moore
house and his property. Moore develops a suburb from 19th St. to 24th St.
between Eighth Avenue and the Hudson River.
1825
General Theological Seminary established
Clement C. Moore gives the block between 20th & 21Sts. and Ninth and Tenth
Avenues rent free to the Protestant Episcopal Church. A lawn original to the
campus still remains in the center of the block.
1884
Chelsea Hotel built
Hotel (then a co-operative apartment building) built by George M. Smith and
designed by architects Hubert, Pirsson & Co. It was the tallest building in
New York until 1902.
1903
Chelsea co-operative bankrupt
The original co-operative goes bankrupt in wake of several financial panics and
rising taxes.
1905
Chelsea becomes hotel
Chelsea becomes the Hotel Chelsea.
