Hotel Theresa

The Hotel Theresa was in the middle of the 20th century, a strong center of black life in Harlem, New York City. It is located at the intersection of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard (better known as 7th Avenue and 125th Street ).

It was opened in 1913 and was, until the construction of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building 1973, the tallest building in Harlem. It has a striking white brick facade and was known as the Waldorf -Astoria of Harlem. The hotel accepted by the time of its opening until 1940, only guests with white skin color and only a few black celebrities.

Among the prominent guests included, among others, Louis Armstrong, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Dorothy Dandridge, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, Dinah Washington, Ray Charles, Little Richard, and Jimi Hendrix.

1960 lived Fidel Castro, who was at a meeting of the United Nations in New York, in the hotel and there was also attended by Nikita Khrushchev.

After breaking with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X began an organization for African-American unit from the hotel and held meetings from here. He also met at the hotel on several occasions Muhammad Ali.

The hotel suffered in the 1950s and 1960s under the continued decline in Harlem and, ironically, at the end of racial segregation in the city. As for blacks now offered alternatives, they no longer came to Harlem. The hotel closed in 1967.

After years of vacancy the house the name "Theresa Towers " in 1971, converted into an office building and is responsible, although still a logo with the old name is on the building and it is still commonly used. In 1993 the building was declared by the City of New York Attraction.

Others

  • Some scenes of the Hitchcock movie Topaz, the plot deals with the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, are rotated in and outside the hotel Theresa.

Swell

  • Barry Popik: Waldorf of Harlem (Hotel Theresa, now Theresa Towers ), June 4, 2005

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  • Former Hotel in New York
  • Skyscraper in New York City
  • Built in the 1910s
  • Building in Manhattan
  • Skyscraper in America
  • Hotel construction in the United States
  • Conversely Exploited building in the United States
  • Hotel in New York City
  • Hotel construction in America
125th Street (Manhattan) Alfred Hitchcock Topaz (1969 film)
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