History / Famous Guests

 


Proclamation from the City of New York presented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg (2004)

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Read about the history of The Hotel Wolcott.

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Click Here to view the brochure of the hotel from 1904, when the hotel first opened.

 

Read about how a survivor of the Titanic stayed at the Hotel Wolcott.

Click here to read the full story of Dr. Dodge's account.



Read about the time Buddy Holly stayed at the Wolcott

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Famed author Henry Miller mentions the famed the Wolcott Hotel bar on page 222 of Moloch or, this Gentile World

Celebrated author Edith Wharton - stayed at the Hotel Wolcott. In their book The Letters of Edith Wharton, editors RWB Lewis and Nancy Lewis printed a letter to Robert Grant sent from the Hotel Wolcott on January 4, 1907.

Envelope to Cifford V. Kendall UK 1947

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  Articles from The New York Times Newspaper

Hotel clerk plays Detective, 1914

Sales Of St. Louis Browns American Football Team, 1910

Ty Cobb traded to the Yankees, 1918

R.N. Elliott - "Ralph Nelson Elliott was that rarest of breeds, a true scholar in the practical world of finance. To read more about his accomplishments, click here.

 

Corning Glassware Company used the Wolcott Hotel's kitchen, circa 1908, to test its new oven ware. Corning salesman, Colonel William C. Thompson's father-in-law was the Wolcott's manager at that time.

Resources:

Imagining Consumer—by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Corning and the Craft of Innovation— Margaret BW Graham

 
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