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The '''Algonquin Hotel''' is a hotel at 59 West 44th Street in [[Midtown Manhattan]], [[New York City]], United States. The 181-room hotel, opened in 1902, was designed by architect [[Starrett & van Vleck|Goldwin Starrett]] for the Puritan Realty Company. The hotel has hosted numerous literary and theatrical notables throughout its history, including members of the [[Algonquin Round Table]] club during the early 20th century. Its first owner-manager, [[Frank Case]], established many of the hotel's traditions, including an official hotel cat as well as discounts for struggling authors. The hotel is a [[New York City designated landmark]].

The hotel building is mostly twelve stories high, except for the extreme western end, which is three stories high. The first two stories of the facade are made of [[Rustication (architecture)|rusticated]] limestone blocks, while the upper stories have a [[Renaissance Revival architecture|Renaissance Revival]] brick facade, with limestone, metal, and terracotta details inspired by the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] style. When the hotel opened, it contained a large restaurant and a smaller cafe, which later became the Oak Room cabaret. The annex contains the Blue Bar on its ground story, while the upper stories were formerly used as a clubhouse.

Although the Algonquin was originally intended as an [[apartment hotel]], it had few long-term tenants. Frank Case leased the hotel in 1907 and converted it into a traditional lodging establishment, attracting many theatrical and literary guests. Case bought the hotel in 1927 and continued to operate it until his death in 1946. Ben Bodne bought the hotel from Case's estate and operated it for another four decades. The Algonquin then passed to the [[Aoki Corporation]] in 1987, the Camberley Hotel Company in 1997, Miller Global Properties in 2002, and [[HEI Hospitality]] in 2005, undergoing a renovation every time it was sold. The Algonquin became part of the [[Marriott International]] chain's Autograph Collection brand in 2010, and it was sold to [[MassMutual]] subsidiary Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors in 2011.

== Site ==
[[File:W 44 St Oct 2022 21.jpg|thumb|upright|left|The hotel's annex at 65 West 44th Street, formerly a stable]]
The Algonquin Hotel is on 59 West 44th Street, on the north sidewalk between [[Sixth Avenue]] and [[Fifth Avenue]], in the [[Midtown Manhattan]] neighborhood of [[New York City]].<ref name="aia5">((cite aia5|pages=272))</ref><ref name="ZoLa">((Cite web |title=59 West 44 Street, 10036 |url=https://zola.planning.nyc.gov/l/lot/1/1260/7 |access-date=March 25, 2021 |publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022180443/https://zola.planning.nyc.gov/l/lot/1/1260/7 |url-status=live))</ref> The rectangular [[land lot]] covers ((cvt|9,221|ft2|m2)), with a [[frontage]] of ((cvt|91.83|ft)) on 44th Street and a depth of ((cvt|100.42|ft|0)).<ref name="ZoLa" /> On the same block, [[the Iroquois New York]], the [[Sofitel New York Hotel]], the [[New York Yacht Club Building]], and the [[Harvard Club of New York City]] building are to the east.<ref name="ZoLa" /><ref name="NYCL p. 6">((harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1987|ps=.|p=6))</ref> Other nearby buildings include the [[Belasco Theatre]] to the west; [[Americas Tower]] to the northwest; [[1166 Avenue of the Americas]] to the north; the [[New York City Bar Association Building]] and the [[Royalton Hotel]] to the south; and the [[Penn Club of New York]] building at [[30 West 44th Street]], the [[General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York|General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen]] building, and the [[Hotel Mansfield]] to the southeast.<ref name="ZoLa" />

The adjacent block of 44th Street is known as Club Row and contains several [[Meetinghouse|clubhouses]].<ref name="nyt-2001-01-07">((Cite news |last=Friedman |first=Andrew |date=January 7, 2001 |title=Neighborhood Report: Midtown; A Bouquet of Boutique Hotels Sprouts Along Club Row |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/nyregion/neighborhood-report-midtown-a-bouquet-of-boutique-hotels-sprouts-along-club-row.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024233452/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/nyregion/neighborhood-report-midtown-a-bouquet-of-boutique-hotels-sprouts-along-club-row.html |url-status=live))</ref> When the hotel was developed in 1902, the area was filled with clubhouses, including those of the Harvard Club, [[The Yale Club of New York City|Yale Club]], [[New York Yacht Club]], [[New York City Bar Association]], and [[Century Association]].<ref name="n111801850">((Cite news |date=November 23, 1902 |title=Servant Problem Solved |pages=11 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111801850/servant-problem-solved/ |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022203054/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111801850/servant-problem-solved/ |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="n111805625">((Cite news |date=November 9, 1902 |title=The Algonquin |pages=7 |work=The Sun |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111805625/the-algonquin/ |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022212646/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111805625/the-algonquin/ |url-status=live))</ref> Prior to the development of the Algonquin Hotel, the neighborhood contained a slaughterhouse, stables for stagecoach horses, and a train yard for the elevated [[IRT Sixth Avenue Line|Sixth Avenue Line]]. One of the stables became the Algonquin's three-story annex in 1904.<ref name="NYCL p. 2">((harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1987|ps=.|p=2))</ref> There had been many stagecoach stables on 43rd and 44th Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues,<ref name=nyt-2001-04-01/> but only a few of these buildings remained at the end of the 20th century.<ref name="NYCL p. 2"/><ref name=nyt-2001-04-01>((Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=April 1, 2001 |title=Streetscapes/44th Street Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues; In Center for Clubhouses, Remnants of Small Stables |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/realestate/streetscapes-44th-street-between-fifth-sixth-avenues-center-for-clubhouses.html |access-date=October 26, 2022 |archive-date=October 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026152644/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/realestate/streetscapes-44th-street-between-fifth-sixth-avenues-center-for-clubhouses.html |url-status=live))</ref>((efn|The [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] cites the block as having two remaining stables in 1987, one of which was the Algonquin's annex.<ref name="NYCL p. 2"/> [[Christopher Gray (architectural historian)|Christopher Gray]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' gave a conflicting number of three stables in 2001, but he did not count the Algonquin's annex as one of the three stables.<ref name=nyt-2001-04-01/>)) By the 2010s, the hotel's annex was the only former stable on the block.<ref name="FM p. 120">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=120))</ref> The Algonquin is also one of six hotels on 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, the largest concentration of hotels on a single block in New York City during the early 21st century.<ref name=p219158681>((cite magazine |id=((ProQuest|219158681)) |title=Hotels, eateries ease West 44th's building block |last=Kramer |first=Louise |volume=17 |issue=22 |date=May 28, 2001 |page=4 |magazine=Crain's New York Business))</ref>

== Architecture ==
The Algonquin Hotel was designed in 1902 by architect [[Starrett & van Vleck|Goldwin Starrett]] of the [[Thompson–Starrett Co.|Thompson–Starrett Company]].<ref name="aia5" /><ref name="NYCL p. 2" /> Albert Foster, who headed the Puritan Realty Company, developed the hotel.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /> The building is mostly twelve stories tall, except for the extreme western end, which was converted from a three-story stable. The 12-story section is shaped like an "H", with [[Lightwell|light courts]] facing west and east.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> In total, the hotel measures ((convert|136|ft)) tall from ground level to the roofline.<ref name="FM p. 103">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=103))</ref>

=== Facade ===
The hotel building has a symmetrical facade. The first two stories of the facade are made of [[Rustication (architecture)|rusticated]] limestone blocks.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> The upper stories are largely clad with brick and are designed in the [[Renaissance Revival architecture|Renaissance Revival]] style, with limestone, metal, and terracotta details in a [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]]-inspired style.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /><ref name="FM p. 116">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=116))</ref> There are [[Course (architecture)|band courses]] on the facade above the second and tenth stories.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> The twelfth story was originally crowned by a cornice, which has since been removed.<ref name="FM p. 116" />

The first story of the hotel's 12-story section is five [[Bay (architecture)|bays]] wide and contains a limestone [[Water table (architecture)|water table]]. The entrance is recessed within the center bay, and a marquee projects above the sidewalk in front of the main entrance.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> This marquee contains details such as old English lettering, wrought-iron scrolls, and a scalloped awning.<ref name="nyt-1965-07-23">((Cite news |last=Weinraub |first=Bernard |date=July 23, 1965 |title=3 Staid Hotels Here Primp Up, But Stick Close to Traditions |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/07/23/archives/3-staid-hotels-here-primp-up-but-stick-close-to-traditions.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024165136/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/07/23/archives/3-staid-hotels-here-primp-up-but-stick-close-to-traditions.html |url-status=live))</ref> There are two segmental arches on either side of the main entrance, all of which have canopies above them. There are glazed wooden doors in the westernmost bay, as well as metal service doors in the easternmost bay. The second-westernmost and second-easternmost bays contain tripartite windows.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> The second story is seven bays wide. The three center bays on the second floor have two-over-two sash windows, separated by motifs of tassels and shells.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> There is a small [[balustrade]] in front of the three center bays, with a flagpole extending diagonally above the street.<ref name="NYCL pp. 6–7">((harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1987|ps=.|pp=6–7))</ref> The four outer bays have rectangular windows, separated by large brackets that support the band course above the second floor, and topped by [[Keystone (architecture)|keystones]] flanked by festoons.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" />
[[File:W 44 St Oct 2021 132.jpg|thumb|Bay windows on the upper stories]]
The third through eleventh stories are seven bays wide and are made of brick with limestone [[quoin]]s. The four outermost bays on each story contain projecting [[bay window]]s with angular window frames, each consisting of a wide glass pane flanked by angled narrow [[sidelight]]s.<ref name="NYCL pp. 6–7" /> The angled windows were intended to increase each unit's exposure to natural light.<ref name="n111805625" /> There are panels, urns, and floral motifs in the angled sidelights; some of the panels have been replaced with air conditioning grilles.<ref name="NYCL pp. 6–7" /> The band course above the tenth story protrudes from the facade; the underside of the band course contains [[dentil]]s and scrolled [[console bracket]]s. On the eleventh and twelfth stories, there are panels with roundels between each of the three middle windows; a similar panel is placed above the twelfth-story windows. At the twelfth story, the four outermost windows are flat rather than angled, as on the second story.<ref name="NYCL p. 7">((harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1987|ps=.|p=7))</ref>

The western annex was originally a two-story stable but was expanded to a three-story brick structure in 1905.<ref name="NYCL p. 7" /><ref name="FM p. 120" /> The first story contains a wooden storefront with metal decorations. There is a double door at the center of the storefront, with a canopy in front of the door.<ref name="NYCL p. 7" /> This entrance leads to the Blue Bar.<ref name="nyt-2012-11-15">((Cite news |last=Reddicliffe |first=Steve |date=November 15, 2012 |title=In a Blue Mood at the Algonquin Hotel |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/booming/algonquins-blue-bar-good-mood-big-tabs.html |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022193535/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/booming/algonquins-blue-bar-good-mood-big-tabs.html |url-status=live))</ref> The entrance is flanked by display windows, which in turn are topped by transom panels with metal grilles. On either side of the storefront are [[pilaster]]s decorated with Native Americans' heads.<ref name="NYCL p. 7" /> The second story contains a projecting window with multiple panes, as well as angled sidelights. The third story is divided into three sections, above which is a cornice supported by brackets and decorated with lions.<ref name="NYCL p. 7" />

=== Features ===
When the hotel opened in 1902, its public rooms were originally furnished in English oak with marble floors.<ref name="n111805625" /> The hotel originally contained a large restaurant known as the Pergola at ground level,<ref name="nyt-1913-12-28">((Cite news |date=December 28, 1913 |title=Western Men's New Home; Rocky Mountain Club Has Housewarming at 65 West 44th St. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/12/28/archives/western-mens-new-home-rocky-mountain-club-has-housewarming-at-65.html |access-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023215819/https://www.nytimes.com/1913/12/28/archives/western-mens-new-home-rocky-mountain-club-has-housewarming-at-65.html |url-status=live))</ref> as well as a smaller cafe.<ref name="n111805625" /><ref name="p128381180">((Cite magazine |last=Owens |first=H Thurston |date=June 1, 1908 |title=Novel Restaurant Lighting |volume=3 |issue=4 |page=198 |id=((proQuest|128381180)) |magazine=The Illuminating Engineer))</ref> The Pergola restaurant occupied the west and north sections of the ground floor, with a kitchen on the same level.<ref name="n111805625" /> The Pergola contained a mural with outdoor scenes on one wall, as well as wood-paneled columns, which supported a [[latticework]] arch with flowers and acorn-shaped light fixtures. Although the Pergola could only fit three rows of tables, mirrors on the remaining walls gave the impression that the restaurant was larger than it actually was.<ref name="p128381180" /> The cafe's ceiling and walls contained terracotta and woodwork, and the lights were suspended from plaster holders on the ceiling.<ref name="p128381180" />

There are multi-room suites and single rooms on the third through eleventh floors.<ref name="NYCL p. 6" /> The core of the H-shaped hotel contains two elevators.<ref name="n111801850" /><ref name="nyt-1989-05-043">((Cite news |last=Slesin |first=Suzanne |date=May 4, 1989 |title=Currents; Reclaiming Past Glory Of a Legend |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/04/garden/currents-reclaiming-past-glory-of-a-legend.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021182611/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/04/garden/currents-reclaiming-past-glory-of-a-legend.html |url-status=live))</ref> Above the second floor, the elevators open into a public hallway that connected all of the rooms on that floor. The core also contains a [[dumbwaiter]] leading from the hotel's kitchen; a set of stairs; and service rooms.<ref name="n111801850" /> The roof contained a patio and a [[roof garden]], which were constructed before [[air conditioning]] became popular.<ref name="FM p. 124">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=124))</ref> There was also a ((convert|4000|gal|L|sp=us|adj=on)) water tower above the roof.<ref name="nyt-1903-04-21">((Cite news |date=April 21, 1903 |title=Scarce Water Supply; Trouble in Forty-fourth Street, Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Apartment Hotels and Clubhouses Complain of Small Flow – Fear of Fire Under the Conditions. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/04/21/archives/scarce-water-supply-trouble-in-fortyfourth-street-be-tween-fifth.html |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022212646/https://www.nytimes.com/1903/04/21/archives/scarce-water-supply-trouble-in-fortyfourth-street-be-tween-fifth.html |url-status=live))</ref> The modern-day hotel contains 181 guest rooms and suites,<ref name="FM pp. 119–120">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|pp=119–120))</ref><ref name="Everett 2021">((cite web |last=Everett |first=Amy |date=March 10, 2021 |title=New York holidays |url=http://www.redonline.co.uk/travel/book-places-to-stay/a513361/the-algonquin-new-york-review/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Red Online |publisher=[[Hearst UK]] |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025174553/https://www.redonline.co.uk/travel/book-places-to-stay/a513361/the-algonquin-new-york-review/ |url-status=live))</ref> as well as five meeting/conference rooms.<ref name="Johnson 2008">((cite web |last=Johnson |first=Richard L. |date=May 12, 2008 |title=Gary Budge Appointed General Manager of the Historic 174-room Algonquin Hotel, New York City / May 2008 |url=https://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2008_2nd/May08_GBudge.html |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Hotel-Online |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025163153/https://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2008_2nd/May08_GBudge.html |url-status=live))</ref>

The annex became part of the hotel in 1904.<ref name="FM p. 120" /> The Pergola occupied the first floor, and the [[Rocky Mountain Club]] opened its clubhouse within the annex's second and third stories in 1913.<ref name="FM p. 120" /><ref name="nyt-1913-12-28" /> The clubhouse had its own entrance on 44th Street, which ascended directly to the second story. The second floor contained a lounge, a reading room, and a cafe that connected with the hotel, while the third floor included the club's [[Parlour game|parlor]], [[Pool (cue sports)|pool]], and [[billiards]] rooms.<ref name="nyt-1913-12-28" /> The Rocky Mountain Club house was used by the [[Beethoven Association]] from 1922 to 1934.<ref name="nyt-1934-05-20">((Cite news |last=Downess |first=Olin |date=May 20, 1934 |title=Beethoven Association's New Home; Spacious Quarters for Future Dwelling of New York's Famous Organization – Achievements of 15 Years in Service of Music |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/20/archives/beethoven-associations-new-home-spacious-quarters-for-future.html |access-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024001940/https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/20/archives/beethoven-associations-new-home-spacious-quarters-for-future.html |url-status=live))</ref> The third floor was then used as a ballroom for much of the 20th century, while the second floor became storage space. In 2012, the annex's second floor was renovated, becoming the John Barrymore Suite.<ref name="FM pp. 120–121">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|pp=120–121))</ref> The annex's first floor has contained the Blue Bar since 1997.<ref name="FM p. 122">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=122))</ref>

==== Lobby ====
Originally, the front (south) portion of the ground floor contained a lounge with palms and flowers.<ref name="n111805625" /> When the hotel opened, the lobby included a barbershop, bar, and newsstand. The barbershop was closed during World War I, and the bar and newsstand were both removed in the 1990s.<ref>((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|pp=116, 118))</ref> The lobby also contains wood paneling and a grandfather clock, which were both part of the original design.<ref name="p546422633" /><ref name="p260545595">((Cite news |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Catherine |date=April 12, 1997 |title=Fashion Week Fashion-weary Find Haven at Algonquin Off the Runway, Historic Hotel Offers Peace, Quiet |page=8 |work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |id=((proQuest|260545595))))</ref><ref name="FM p. 118">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=118))</ref> There was a glazed partition between the waiting area and reception desk.<ref name="n111735112">((Cite news |last=Blades |first=John |date=November 7, 1990 |title=Facelift won't erase literati's lines |pages=65, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111735150/algonquin/ 69] |work=Chicago Tribune |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111735112/facelift-wont-erase-literatis/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021182611/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111735112/facelift-wont-erase-literatis/ |url-status=live))</ref> To the east of the lounge was a men's smoking room and club.<ref name="n111805625" /> These features were removed during several subsequent renovations of the hotel.<ref name="FM p. 116" />

The modern-day lobby includes modern furniture designed in an early 20th-century style, as well as original furniture from the same time period. The walls and columns are stained to resemble chocolate-ebony wood.<ref name="p234919504">((cite magazine |last=Petit |first=Sarah |date=Sep 1998 |title=Return to the round table |volume=69 |issue=11 |pages=66 |id=((proQuest|234919504)) |journal=Interior Design))</ref> The space also contains black-and-white tiled floors, which were installed in 1998 in a vintage style;<ref name="FM p. 118" /> the floors are covered by imported British rugs.<ref name="p234919504" /><ref name="Hospitality Design 2022">((cite web |date=June 30, 2022 |title=Stonehill Taylor Revives the Algonquin in New York |url=https://hospitalitydesign.com/news/hotels-resorts/the-algonquin-hotel-new-york-renovation/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |website=Hospitality Design |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021144821/https://hospitalitydesign.com/news/hotels-resorts/the-algonquin-hotel-new-york-renovation/ |url-status=live))</ref> The lobby contains an oil painting of several [[Algonquin Round Table]] regulars,<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28">((Cite news |last=Iovine |first=Julie V. |date=May 28, 1998 |title=Algonquin, at Wits' End, Retrofits |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/28/garden/algonquin-at-wits-end-retrofits.html |access-date=October 21, 2022))</ref> designed by [[Natalie Ascencios]] on the site of a former bar.<ref name="FM p. 119" /> Next to the painting is an imitation round table, for which guests can make reservations.<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /><ref name="p240360593">((Cite news |last=MacAdam |first=Pat |date=May 21, 2000 |title=Camelot on 44th Street: New York's Algonquin Hotel is still a Mecca of sorts |page=C16 |work=The Ottawa Citizen |id=((proQuest|240360593))))</ref> There is a blue-and-red marble desk with a shelter for the hotel's cat (see ((Section link|Algonquin Hotel|Cats))) and, near the eastern window, a shelf with a small staircase for the cat.<ref name="Hospitality Design 2022" /><ref name="Nast 2022">((cite web |last=Archer |first=Sarah |date=May 17, 2022 |title=Can Cat-Friendly Design Be Chic? |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/can-cat-friendly-design-be-chic |access-date=October 24, 2022 |website=Architectural Digest |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024011955/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/can-cat-friendly-design-be-chic |url-status=live))</ref> Above the reception desk is an artwork composed of salvaged guest books, which was added in 2022.<ref name="Nast 2022" /><ref name="Hospitality Net 2022">((cite web |date=June 9, 2022 |title=The Algonquin Hotel Times Square, Autograph Collection, Reopens Its Doors With Reimagined Food And Beverage Experiences |url=https://www.hospitalitynet.org/announcement/41008111.html |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Hospitality Net))</ref> There is also a seating area across from the reception desk, where guests can pet and play with the hotel's cat.<ref name="Hospitality Net 2022" />

The Rose Room, along with the smaller Oak Room, was part of the hotel's restaurant. The space contained red wallpaper, a red ceiling, and chandeliers with orange velvet tubes.<ref name="p894053750" /> The Rose Room was demolished when the lobby was expanded in 1998.<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /><ref name="p433297615">((Cite news |last=Swanson |first=Stevenson |date=July 19, 1998 |title=Algonquin Hotel gets a new round table: No matter the shape of the one used by Dorothy Parker and friends, today's version has pride of place |page=C3 |work=The Gazette |id=((ProQuest|433297615))))</ref> The Round Table Restaurant was relocated into the Rose Room's former space.<ref name="FM p. 118" /><ref name="n123560235">((Cite news |last=Blackerby |first=Cheryl |date=March 23, 2013 |title=Literati still meeting at the Algonquin; Chatting in elegance continues without the round table |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123560235/literati-still-meeting-at-the-algonquin/ |access-date=April 26, 2023 |pages=A12, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123560275/algonquin/ A10] |work=Palm Beach Daily News |id=((proQuest|1319347463))))</ref>

==== Oak Room ====
The Oak Room occupied the ground floor of the annex and was originally the Pergola's rear section.<ref name="FM p. 123">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=123))</ref> The Oak Room Supper Club opened within part of the Pergola in 1939,<ref name="p1032209319">((cite magazine |date=December 2, 1939 |title=Night clubs-vaudeville: Algonquin and Others Opening New York Clubs |magazine=The Billboard |volume=51 |issue=48 |pages=26 |id=((ProQuest|1032209319))))</ref><ref name="p1627592346">((cite magazine |last=Schneider |first=Ben |date=November 27, 1939 |title=Night Clubs |magazine=Women's Wear |volume=59 |issue=103 |pages=22 |id=((ProQuest|1627592346))))</ref> with European chanteuse [[Greta Keller]] as the room's first star.<ref name="wsj-2012-02-03">((Cite news |last=Friedwald |first=Will |date=February 3, 2012 |title=Algonquin Hotel Closes Oak Room |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203889904577199532493946126.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=April 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430234847/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203889904577199532493946126.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="Playbill 2012">((cite web |date=February 2, 2012 |title=Algonquin's Oak Room Will Not Reopen Following Hotel's Renovations |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/updated-algonquins-oak-room-will-not-reopen-following-hotels-renovations-187118 |access-date=January 5, 2015 |work=Playbill |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223701/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/updated-algonquins-oak-room-will-not-reopen-following-hotels-renovations-187118 |url-status=live))</ref> The club closed during World War II.<ref name="wsj-2012-02-03" /> The Oak Room reopened as a regular venue in either 1980<ref name="wsj-2012-02-03" /><ref name="p2598187728">((cite magazine |last=Christy |first=George |date=December 30, 1980 |title=The Great Life |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |volume=264 |issue=46 |page=19 |id=((ProQuest|2598187728))))</ref> or 1981<ref name="FM p. 123" /> under the management of cabaret operator Donald Smith.<ref name="nyt-2012-02-04">((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=February 4, 2012 |title=The Song Is Over, but Melodies Linger On |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/arts/music/oak-room-at-algonquin-hotel-closes.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024003149/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/arts/music/oak-room-at-algonquin-hotel-closes.html |url-status=live))</ref> Its first regular and star was singer-pianist [[Steve Ross (cabaret singer)|Steve Ross]].<ref name="Playbill 2012" /> Other performers who have appeared at the Oak Room include [[Julie Wilson]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=March 12, 1996 |title=Music in Review |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/12/arts/music-in-review-cabaret.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021191237/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/12/arts/music-in-review-cabaret.html |url-status=live))</ref> [[Mary Cleere Haran]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=September 10, 1999 |title=Cabaret Review; Mary Cleere Haran, Jazz Baby Roaring Through the 20's |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/10/arts/cabaret-review-mary-cleere-haran-jazz-baby-roaring-through-the-20-s.html |access-date=October 21, 2022))</ref> [[Karen Akers]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=May 1, 2001 |title=In Performance: Cabaret; Torch Songs Lightened With Comic Touches |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/arts/in-performance-cabaret-torch-songs-lightened-with-comic-touches.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110150814/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/arts/in-performance-cabaret-torch-songs-lightened-with-comic-touches.html |url-status=live))</ref> [[KT Sullivan]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=July 8, 1993 |title=Pop and Jazz in Review |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/08/arts/pop-and-jazz-in-review-960493.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021191239/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/08/arts/pop-and-jazz-in-review-960493.html |url-status=live))</ref> [[Barbara Carroll]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=September 20, 2010 |title=A Swinging, Sophisticated New York |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/arts/music/21carroll.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110150825/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/arts/music/21carroll.html |url-status=live))</ref> [[Sandy Stewart (singer)|Sandy Stewart]] and [[Bill Charlap]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=November 4, 2011 |title=Wistful Reflection and No Regrets: A Life Evoked by Mother and Son |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/arts/music/sandy-stewart-and-bill-charlap-at-the-oak-room-review.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110150825/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/arts/music/sandy-stewart-and-bill-charlap-at-the-oak-room-review.html |url-status=live))</ref> [[Diana Krall]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=August 18, 1997 |title=Expressing Swing's Power, Without Swinging Out |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/18/arts/expressing-swing-s-power-without-swinging-out.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021191235/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/18/arts/expressing-swing-s-power-without-swinging-out.html |url-status=live))</ref> [[Jessica Molaskey]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=June 15, 2006 |title=Jessica Molaskey: Betwixt, Between but Not Bewildered |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/arts/music/jessica-molaskey-betwixt-between-but-not-bewildered.html |access-date=October 21, 2022))</ref> [[Jamie Cullum]],<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=October 3, 2003 |title=Cabaret Review; Hardly Aged in the Oak Room |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/arts/cabaret-review-hardly-aged-in-the-oak-room.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=December 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226081812/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/arts/cabaret-review-hardly-aged-in-the-oak-room.html |url-status=live))</ref> and [[John Pizzarelli]].<ref>((Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=January 21, 1999 |title=Music Review; Meet the Beatles Less Reverentially |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/21/arts/music-review-meet-the-beatles-less-reverentially.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021191238/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/21/arts/music-review-meet-the-beatles-less-reverentially.html |url-status=live))</ref> [[Andrea Marcovicci]] performed there for over 25 years,<ref name="Lunden 2012">((cite web |last=Lunden |first=Jeff |date=May 31, 2012 |title=Requiem For A Cabaret: The Oak Room Closes |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/05/31/153720369/requiem-for-a-cabaret-the-oak-room-closes |access-date=January 5, 2015 |work=NPR |archive-date=May 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509195219/http://www.npr.org/2012/05/31/153720369/requiem-for-a-cabaret-the-oak-room-closes |url-status=live))</ref> sometimes with her mother [[Helen Stuart|Helen Marcovicci (née Stuart)]].<ref>((cite web |last=Story |first=Richard David |date=January 4, 1993 |title=Hotline – Scenes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBkAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20 |access-date=January 4, 2015 |work=New York |page=20 |volume=26 |issue=1))</ref> [[Harry Connick Jr.]] and [[Michael Feinstein]] also performed at the Oak Room earlier in their careers.<ref name="Playbill 2012" /> [[Sylvia Syms (singer)|Sylvia Syms]] collapsed and died on stage there during a performance in 1992.<ref name="nyt-2012-02-04" /><ref name="wsj-2012-02-03" />

The Oak Room spanned ((Convert|4000|ft2)).<ref name="nyt-2002-11-19">((Cite news |last=Collins |first=Glenn |date=November 19, 2002 |title=Round Table, Meet the Desktop; At the Algonquin Hotel, Tradition Is Getting an Upgrade |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/nyregion/round-table-meet-desktop-algonquin-hotel-tradition-getting-upgrade.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171402/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/nyregion/round-table-meet-desktop-algonquin-hotel-tradition-getting-upgrade.html |url-status=live))</ref> ''New York Times'' critic [[Raymond Sokolov]] described the Oak Room as intimate and more masculine than the Rose Room.<ref name="p894053750">((cite news |last=Sokolov |first=Raymond A. |date=September 10, 1971 |title=The Algonquin: Still the Literary People, Still the Good Food |page=22 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |id=((ProQuest|894053750))))</ref> The space had theatrical equipment and lighting, as well as a grand piano.<ref name="FM p. 123" /> The Oak Room was not a large source of income,<ref name="Lunden 2012" /> despite charging at least $100 per person (more if one had dinner, except for matinees).<ref>((cite web |title=Algonquin Hotel Oak Room |url=http://jazzinsidemagazine.com/publications/directory/algonquin-hotel-oak-room/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507160521/http://jazzinsidemagazine.com/publications/directory/algonquin-hotel-oak-room/ |archive-date=May 7, 2015 |access-date=January 5, 2015 |work=Jazz Inside))</ref> Howard Reich of the ''Chicago Tribune'' wrote in 1993 that the room's decorations, size, furnishings, and waiters' services evoked "an era when visitors sat back, sipped a drink, listened to music and savored life in an unhurried way".<ref>((cite news |last=Reich |first=Howard |date=October 17, 1993 |title=City Swing New York, New York Twinkles With the Resurgence of Its Cabaret Rooms |page=6 |work=Chicago Tribune |id=((ProQuest|283575313))))</ref>

The Oak Room permanently closed as a cabaret nightclub in 2012, and a portion of the room was converted into a private breakfast room for Marriott Reward Elite customers.<ref name="wsj-2012-02-03" /> ((As of|2022)), the Oak Room is a ((convert|1650|ft2|adj=on)) conference room with space for 105 guests in a theater-style arrangement.<ref name="Hospitality Net 2022" /> The Oak Room also contains a movable partition, which can split the space into two rooms, each with a capacity of 40.<ref name="Hospitality Design 2022" /><ref name="Hospitality Net 2022" /> The room retains its original woodwork,<ref name="Hospitality Net 2022" /> and its ceiling contains curving metal light fixtures.<ref name="Hospitality Design 2022" />

==== Blue Bar ====
[[File:Algonquin Blue Bar (3033554732).jpg|thumb|The Algonquin Hotel's bar]]
The hotel's Blue Bar has operated since 1933, following the end of [[Prohibition in the United States]].<ref name="Thrillist 2017">((cite web |date=October 5, 2017 |title=Blue Bar at The Algonquin Hotel Times Square, Autograph Collection |url=https://www.thrillist.com/venues/drink/new-york/bars/blue-bar-at-the-algonquin-hotel |access-date=October 22, 2022 |website=Thrillist))</ref><ref name="FM p. 121">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=121))</ref> Originally, the Blue Bar was placed in a niche behind the reception counter.<ref name="FM p. 122" /> The niche was closed and converted to storage space by the 1980s.<ref name="FM p. 122" /><ref>((Cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=May 27, 1998 |title=Retro New York; An Era Of Romance Shimmers In Revival |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/27/dining/retro-in-new-york-an-era-of-romance-shimmers-in-revival.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024224829/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/27/dining/retro-in-new-york-an-era-of-romance-shimmers-in-revival.html |url-status=live))</ref> The Blue Bar relocated to the annex in 1997,<ref name="FM p. 122" /><ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /> with its own entrance from the street.<ref>((Cite news |last=Kugel |first=Seth |date=March 11, 2007 |title=The Night's Young, So Find a Gray Bar |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/travel/11WEEKEND.html |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025011611/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/travel/11WEEKEND.html |url-status=live))</ref> ''The New York Times'' wrote in 2000: "The Blue Bar is frequented by widows and well-traveled gentlemen with a predilection for theater."<ref>((Cite news |last=Leduff |first=Charlie |date=April 23, 2000 |title=Neighborhood Report: Bending Elbows; Looking for Mr. Dreamy |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/23/nyregion/neighborhood-report-bending-elbows-looking-for-mr-dreamy.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024233452/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/23/nyregion/neighborhood-report-bending-elbows-looking-for-mr-dreamy.html |url-status=live))</ref> In 2012, the Blue Bar was renovated and expanded into part of the space formerly occupied by the Oak Room.<ref name="nyt-2012-11-15" /><ref name="FM p. 122" /> The expanded Blue Bar contained blue lighting and blue-toned backlit bookshelves, with black-and-white floors that resembled those in the main reception area.<ref name="nyt-2012-11-15" /><ref name="FM p. 122" /> The Blue Bar was relocated to the main lobby in 2022. The modern bar contains design elements similar to those added in the 2012 renovation, but the rear of the bar can be cordoned off for private parties.<ref name="Hospitality Design 2022" /><ref name="Hospitality Net 2022" />

==== Rooms and suites ====
The rooms and suites were arranged in square groups, each with its own hallway connecting to the elevators and stairs at the core.<ref name="n111801850" /> The largest suites available in the hotel contained a private hallway, a sitting room, a library or dining room, three bedrooms, and three bathrooms. Each unit originally contained mahogany woodwork and waxed-oak floors.<ref name="n111801850" /><ref name="n111805625" /> Sliding doors separated the parlors and bedrooms in each suite; the master bedrooms were illuminated by the bay windows on the facade. Unusually for hotels of the time, each bedroom had its own bathroom, with a shower, hot and cold water, and electric lights.<ref name="n111805625" /> Except for bookshelves and [[fireplace mantel]]s, the units were otherwise unfurnished.<ref name="n111801850" /> By the 2000s, the rooms had black-and-white wallpaper with framed cartoons from ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine.<ref name="n111949902">((Cite news |last=Reigler |first=Susan |date=May 20, 2007 |title=New York has a wealth of literary landmarks |pages=L1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111949965/literary-landmarks-nyc/ L4] |work=The Courier-Journal |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111949902/new-york-has-a-wealth-of-literary/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025003527/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111949902/new-york-has-a-wealth-of-literary/ |url-status=live))</ref> The hallways also contain cartoons taken from ''The New Yorker''.<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /><ref name="p434802090">((Cite news |last=Lash |first=Rochelle |date=April 18, 2009 |title=Algonquin draws on literary past for contemporary deal |page=I2 |work=The Gazette |id=((proQuest|434802090))))</ref>

The modern-day hotel contains 156 rooms and 25 suites.<ref name="FM pp. 119–120" /><ref name="Everett 2021" /> Each suite has a name, and many suites are named after members of the Algonquin Round Table. For example, suite 506 is named for [[Robert Benchley]], suite 610 for [[Harold Ross]], suite 1106 for [[Dorothy Parker]], and suite 1112 for [[Franklin P. Adams|Franklin Pierce "F.P.A." Adams]].<ref name="FM p. 116" /> Suite 306, named for [[Edna Ferber]], hosted annual meetings of the [[New York Drama Critics' Circle]].<ref name="FM p. 120" /> Suite 1010 (now the Noël Coward Suite) was the owner's apartment for nearly one hundred years. The hotel's first owner-manager [[Frank Case]] lived there from 1902 until his death in 1946; the subsequent owners, Ben and Mary Bodne, lived there from 1947 until their respective deaths in 1992 and 2000.<ref name="FM p. 116" /> The largest suite in the hotel is suite 209 on the annex's second floor, which is named after [[John Barrymore]] and covers nearly ((convert|700|ft2)).<ref name="FM p. 124" /><ref>((cite web |title=The Barrymore Suite – Luxury Hotel Near Times Square |url=https://www.algonquinhotel.com/rooms/the-barrymore-suite/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Algonquin Hotel |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025234302/https://www.algonquinhotel.com/rooms/the-barrymore-suite/ |url-status=live))</ref>

== History ==
[[File:TheAlgonquin.JPG|alt=The Algonquin Hotel at night, with a large awning over the entrance, as well as spotlights on the facade and between the ground-story windows|thumb|The Algonquin Hotel at night]]

=== Development and opening ===

==== Construction ====
The Algonquin was the third hotel to be built on the surrounding city block, after the Iroquois and Royalton, which had opened in 1900.<ref name="FM p. 103" /> In November 1901, the Puritan Realty Company bought a ((convert|7200|ft2|m2|adj=on)) site at 59–63 West 44th Street from the Century Realty Company for $180,000.<ref name="FM p. 103" /><ref name="nyt-1901-11-26" /><ref name="p571086026" /> The Puritan Realty Company immediately announced plans to erect an [[apartment hotel]] on the site.<ref name="nyt-1901-11-26">((Cite news |date=November 26, 1901 |title=In the Real Estate Field; New $500,000 Apartment House on West Forty-fourth Street. Similar Structure for Steinway Property in Gramercy Park – New Building Near Madison Square. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/11/26/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-new-500000-apartment-house-on-west.html |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022212647/https://www.nytimes.com/1901/11/26/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-new-500000-apartment-house-on-west.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="p571086026">((cite news |date=November 26, 1902 |title=New Hotels Planned |page=12 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id=((ProQuest|571086026))))</ref> The hotel would be similar in design to the then-newly completed Touraine, at 9–11 East 39th Street,<ref name="nyt-1901-11-26" /> and it would rent rooms and suites on year-long leases.<ref>((harvnb|Case|1938|ps=.|page=39))</ref> The owners hired 28-year-old Goldwin Starrett to design the hotel,<ref name="FM p. 103" /> his first project in Manhattan.<ref name="FM p. 106">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=106))</ref> Starrett's firm, the Thompson–Starrett Company, was to build the hotel for $500,000<ref name="nyt-1901-11-26" /><ref name="p571086026" /> or $600,000.<ref>((Cite magazine |date=December 5, 1901 |title=Hotels |volume=12 |issue=49 |page=839 |id=((proQuest|128399919)) |magazine=The Construction News))</ref><ref>((Cite magazine |date=March 1, 1902 |title=Unexampled Building Activity in New York |volume=24 |issue=3 |page=243 |id=((proQuest|910660795)) |magazine=Stone))</ref> The Puritan Realty Company acquired a $250,000 loan from the Century Realty Company at the end of 1901.<ref>((cite news |date=December 19, 1901 |title=Real Estate |page=6 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id=((ProQuest|571128893))))</ref>

Albert T. Foster and Ann Stetson Foster obtained a majority ownership stake in the Puritan Realty Company in February 1902.<ref>((Cite news |date=February 9, 1902 |title=In the Real Estate Field; Large Purchases in All Regions of Recent Activity |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/02/09/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-large-purchases-in-all-regions-of-recent.html |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022212646/https://www.nytimes.com/1902/02/09/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-large-purchases-in-all-regions-of-recent.html |url-status=live))</ref> At the end of the month, the company submitted plans to the [[New York City Department of Buildings]] for an unnamed 12-story hotel, to be built on the north side of 44th Street east of Sixth Avenue.<ref>((cite news |date=February 27, 1902 |title=The Building Department: List of Plans Filed for New Structures and Alterations |page=14 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |id=((ProQuest|96217826))))</ref><ref>((cite news |date=February 27, 1902 |title=Plans Filed for Twelve Story Hotel |page=13 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id=((ProQuest|571051015))))</ref> The Thompson–Starrett Company completed the hotel within a seven-month period, between April and November 1902.<ref name="FM p. 106" /> Originally, the hotel was to have been known as the Puritan; there are conflicting explanations for how it received the Algonquin name.<ref name="Case pp. 26-27">((harvnb|Case|1938|ps=.|pages=26–27))</ref><ref name="Hermann 1982">((cite book |last=Herrmann |first=Dorothy |title=With Malice Toward All: The Quips, Lives and Loves of Some Celebrated 20th-Century American Wits |date=1982 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |isbn=0-399-12710-0 |page=19))</ref><ref name="FM p. 105">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=105))</ref> The Fosters hired Frank Case as a clerk in late 1902, a few weeks before the hotel opened.<ref name="p1322411155">((cite news |date=June 8, 1946 |title=Frank Case, 69, Dies; Algonquin Host 4 Decades |page=12A |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646  |id=((ProQuest|1322411155))))</ref><ref name="NYCL p. 3">((harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1987|ps=.|p=3))</ref> According to one account, Case believed the "Puritan" name was too pompous and evocative of European influences, and he persuaded the Fosters to rename the hotel after discovering that [[Algonquian peoples|Algonquian]] Native Americans had been the first residents of the area.<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /> Another possible derivation is that Ann Foster named the hotel the Algonquin to complement the nearby Iroquois, which was also named after a Native American tribe.<ref name="FM p. 105" /> The hotel had been planned with a gentlemen's billiards room, but, under Case's supervision, that room was converted to a kitchen.<ref name="FM p. 111">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=111))</ref>

==== Early years ====
The hotel opened on November 22, 1902,<ref name="n111801850" /><ref name="FM p. 105" /> and was originally intended as a long-term hotel.<ref name="Case pp. 26-27" /><ref name="Hermann 1982" /> At the time of the hotel's opening, it had amenities that were considered modern for its time, such as in-suite telephones, heating, and plumbing.<ref name="n111801850" /><ref name="nyt-1989-05-043" /> Guests could use the phones in their rooms to contact the hotel's concierge or to order food from the restaurant [[à la carte]]. They could also pay $7 a week (((Inflation|index=US|value=7|start_year=1902|fmt=eq))) to hire their own servants, or $12 a week (((Inflation|index=US|value=12|start_year=1902|fmt=eq))) to have food delivered to their rooms. Annual rent ranged from $420 (((Inflation|index=US|value=420|start_year=1902|r=-2|fmt=eq))) for a single room to $2,520 (((Inflation|index=US|value=2520|start_year=1902|r=-2|fmt=eq))) for a three-bedroom suite.<ref name="n111801850" /><ref name="n111805625" /> Guests could also use the rooms and suites for a short term, paying a nightly rate that ranged between $2 for a single room and $10 for a three-bedroom suite.<ref name="FM p. 105" />

The Puritan Realty Company agreed in February 1903 to sell the Algonquin Hotel to two doctors, Andrew H. Smith and his son Davison W. Smith, for about $800,000;<ref>((cite news |date=February 3, 1903 |title=Doctors Buy Algonquin Hotel |page=5 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id=((ProQuest|571206189))))</ref> the Smiths took title that November.<ref name="FM p. 105" /><ref name="nyt-1903-02-13">((Cite news |date=February 13, 1903 |title=In the Real Estate Field; One Hundred and Twelfth Street Lots Sold – Algonquin Apartment Hotel Changes Hands – Other Dealings. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/02/13/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-one-hundred-and-twelfth-street-lots-sold.html |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022212645/https://www.nytimes.com/1903/02/13/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-one-hundred-and-twelfth-street-lots-sold.html |url-status=live))</ref> In partial exchange for the hotel, the Smiths sold a building at the corner of Madison Avenue and 42nd Street.<ref>((Cite news |date=February 14, 1903 |title=In the Real Estate Field; Small Plot on the Grand Circle Bought by Albert Flake – Other Dealings and Auction Sales. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/02/14/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-small-plot-on-the-grand-circle-bought-by.html |access-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023183204/https://www.nytimes.com/1903/02/14/archives/in-the-real-estate-field-small-plot-on-the-grand-circle-bought-by.html |url-status=live))</ref> Albert Foster continued to hold a lease on the Algonquin Hotel, paying $45,000 a year in rent.<ref name="nyt-1903-02-13" /> When the Algonquin opened, it was near six clubhouses,<ref name="n111801850" /><ref name="n111805625" /> as well as the upscale [[Delmonico's]] and [[Sherry's]] restaurants.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /><ref name="n111805625" /> By early 1903, the Algonquin and other buildings on the block suffered from water shortages because of the large number of businesses in the area.<ref name="nyt-1903-04-21" />

Meanwhile, the Fosters had become estranged. Ann Foster sued Albert in June 1904 to acquire the Algonquin's lease, claiming she was the true leaseholder and that she had spent $50,000 to furnish the hotel.<ref>((cite news |date=June 14, 1904 |title=Wants Algonquin Lease |page=14 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id=((ProQuest|571558351))))</ref><ref>((cite news |date=June 14, 1904 |title=Fight for Hotel Algonquin |page=3 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |id=((ProQuest|96474567))))</ref> A New York state judge subsequently appointed Albert as the hotel's [[Receiver (legal)|receiver]].<ref>((Cite news |date=June 28, 1904 |title=Court Notes |pages=16 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111855958/court-notes/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023183204/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111855958/court-notes/ |url-status=live))</ref> Ultimately, Case took over the day-to-day operations, Albert was assigned the lease and all objects in the hotel, and Ann acquired the building itself (notwithstanding the fact that it had already been sold to the Smiths).<ref name="FM p. 105" /> The Algonquin did not attract many long-term tenants in its early years. According to Case, the hotel catered to "many well-known families from Newport, Bar Harbor and Narragansett", who stayed there twice a year for short periods.<ref name="NYCL p. 7" /><ref name="Case25">((Harvnb|Case|1938|ps=.|p=25))</ref> The hotel bought a two-story stable at 65 West 44th Street in 1904 and built another floor above the stable the next year.<ref name="FM p. 120" />

=== Case operation ===
[[File:W 44 St Sep 2021 14.jpg|thumb|The hotel as viewed from across 44th Street]]
By the late 1900s and early 1910s, the surrounding neighborhood was rapidly developing into an entertainment district.<ref name="NYCL pp. 2–3">((harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1987|ps=.|pp=2–3))</ref> The [[New York Hippodrome]] opened directly across 44th Street in 1905, which Case described as "an important event for us".<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /><ref>((Harvnb|Case|1938|ps=.|p=30))</ref> Manhattan's [[Theater District, Manhattan|theater district]] also shifted to [[Times Square]] during the first decade of the 20th century; several [[Broadway theatre|Broadway theaters]], including the Belasco, [[Broadhurst Theatre|Broadhurst]], [[44th Street Theatre|Forty-fourth Street]], and Winthrop Ames (now [[Hayes Theater|Hayes]]), were developed on 44th Street in the 1900s and 1910s.<ref name="NYCL p. 2" /> Case took over the hotel's lease in 1907<ref>((harvnb|Case|1938|ps=.|page=37))</ref> and decided to operate the Algonquin as a short-term hotel.<ref name="Case25" /><ref name="NYCL pp. 2–3" /> He lived there with his wife Caroline and their children Margaret and Carroll. Shortly after Carroll was born in 1908, Caroline died, and the hotel's staff helped Frank raise his children at the hotel.<ref name="FM p. 111" />

==== Literary heyday ====
The Algonquin soon became a "theatrical and literary mecca", according to the [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] (LPC),<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /> and it was also the first major hotel in New York City to accept unaccompanied female guests.<ref name="NYT20051002 web">((Cite web |last=Holtz |first=Jeff |date=October 2, 2005 |title=In Brief; Algonquin Becomes Connecticut Territory |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/nyregion/in-brief-algonquin-becomes-connecticut-territory.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518234601/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/nyregion/in-brief-algonquin-becomes-connecticut-territory.html |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |access-date=May 18, 2021 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |language=en-US))</ref> Under Case's management, the Algonquin gained a reputation for hospitality toward struggling authors, actors, and producers, which contributed to the hotel's popularity among theatrical and literary figures. For instance, Case paid playwright [[Eugene Walter (playwright)|Eugene Walter]]'s railroad fare when the latter was a guest at the hotel, and Case allowed guests to defer payment of their bills.<ref name="p11135407873">((cite news |date=May 9, 1927 |title=Case, Ex-Clerk, Buys Algonquin For $1,000,000 |page=5 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646  |id=((ProQuest|1113540787))))</ref><ref>((cite news |date=May 10, 1927 |title=Former Hotel Clerk Becomes Owner by Friendship Policy: Success With Hostelry Frequented by Famous Actors Is Credited to Personal Interest in Guests |page=4A |work=The Christian Science Monitor |id=((ProQuest|512122528))))</ref> The ''[[Toronto Star]]'' wrote: "Through the years, the hotel has played an important role in keeping various (literally) starving artists and actors alive until their next job, their future book or Broadway hit."<ref name="p282607709">((Cite news |last=Veale |first=Steve |date=October 10, 1987 |title=Vicious Circle's Algonquin hotel lives on as Manhattan legend |page=E33 |work=Toronto Star |id=((proQuest|282607709))))</ref>

The hotel's restaurant caught fire in February 1909.<ref name="FM p. 105" /><ref>((Cite news |date=February 14, 1909 |title=Smoke Routs Hotel Guests: Those in the Algonquin and Iroquois Alarmed by Fire |page=1 |work=The Baltimore Sun |id=((proQuest|537638368))))</ref> After Andrew Smith died in 1910,<ref>((Cite news |date=April 9, 1910 |title=Dr. Andrew H. Smith Dead; Ex-President of Academy of Medicine and Owner of Hotel Algonquin. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/04/09/archives/dr-andrew-h-smith-dead-expresident-of-academy-of-medicine-and-owner.html |access-date=October 23, 2022))</ref> the hotel's ownership was split equally between his daughter Juliet E. Smith and his wife Jane Wells.<ref>((Cite news |date=March 30, 1923 |title=Mrs. Wells Estate Valued at $168,811; Husband, Retired Bishop, Gets $1,500 a Year and Third of the Residue |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/03/30/archives/mrs-wells-estate-valued-at-168811-husband-retired-bishop-gets-1500.html |access-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023231702/https://www.nytimes.com/1923/03/30/archives/mrs-wells-estate-valued-at-168811-husband-retired-bishop-gets-1500.html |url-status=live))</ref> The annex caught fire the same November, destroying [[Frederic Thompson]]'s residence on the top story.<ref name="FM p. 120" /><ref>((cite news |date=November 12, 1910 |title=Two Lives Lost at Fire: Husband Leaps and is Impaled on Fence; Wife Burned to Death. Many Heroic Rescues at New York Blaze. Mother and Two Children Carried From Burning Tenement |page=5 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |id=((ProQuest|144970441))))</ref> The [[Rocky Mountain Club]] leased the Algonquin's three-story annex in May 1913,<ref>((Cite news |date=May 24, 1913 |title='Mountaineers' Get a Home |pages=18 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111871634/mountaineers-get-a-home/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023215820/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111871634/mountaineers-get-a-home/ |url-status=live))</ref> and Frederick J. Sterner remodeled the annex into a clubhouse,<ref>((Cite news |date=August 1, 1913 |title=Rocky Mountain Club House |pages=14 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111871766/rocky-mountain-club-house/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023215819/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111871766/rocky-mountain-club-house/ |url-status=live))</ref> which opened that December.<ref name="nyt-1913-12-28" /> Case had a negative perception of [[speakeasy]] operators,<ref>((harvnb|Case|1938|ps=.|pages=175–177))</ref> and he closed the hotel's bar in 1917,<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /><ref>((harvnb|Case|1938|ps=.|page=172))</ref> saying he did not want to fund his children's college tuition with "saloon money".<ref name="FM p. 121" /><ref name="p11135407873" /> Within two years of its closure, a soft-drink bar had been added.<ref>((cite news |last=Read |first=Mary L. |date=April 13, 1919 |title=What Will New York Hotels Do Without Bars? |page=F8 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id=((ProQuest|576002163))))</ref>

Following World War I, the hotel became a meeting place of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of actors, critics, wits, and writers, between 1919 and 1929.<ref name="p269739634">((Cite news |last=Musial |first=Robert |date=June 20, 1994 |title=New York's Algonquin Hotel celebrates the literary Round Table's 75th anniversary |page=D4 |work=The Spectator |id=((ProQuest|269739634))))</ref> In addition, the Beethoven Association moved into the hotel's annex in 1922, staying there for twelve years.<ref name="nyt-1934-05-20" /> By the early 1920s, the Algonquin had become popular as a short-term residence for "Hollywood stars and Broadway producers".<ref name="p561731364">((cite news |last=Rosahn |first=Beatrice |date=June 1, 1952 |title=You Meet Them All at the Algonquin: Famous Manhattan Hotel is Home to Many Celebrities Who Like Its Friendliness |page=Sm6 |work=The Hartford Courant |id=((ProQuest|561731364))))</ref> The Algonquin's success prompted Case to consider opening a similar hotel in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] in the early 1920s.<ref>((cite news |date=April 3, 1924 |title=Algonquin Hotel's Proprietor to Build Twin in Hollywood |page=11 |work=The New York Herald, New York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id=((ProQuest|1112952571))))</ref>

==== Case ownership ====
Case bought the property in 1927, paying Andrew Smith's family $1 million.<ref name="p11135407873" /><ref name="nyt-1927-05-09">((Cite news |date=May 9, 1927 |title=Frank Case Buys Algonquin for $1,000,000; Hotel Long Home of Writers and Stage Folk |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/05/09/archives/frank-case-buys-algonquin-for-1000000-hotel-long-home-of-writers.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171405/https://www.nytimes.com/1927/05/09/archives/frank-case-buys-algonquin-for-1000000-hotel-long-home-of-writers.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((harvnb|Case|1938|ps=.|page=189))</ref> By then, the hotel contained 250 rooms.<ref name="p11135407873" /><ref name="nyt-1927-05-09" /> The hotel's Blue Bar opened in 1933, sixteen years after the original bar had closed.<ref name="FM p. 121" /><ref name="Thrillist 2017" /> The Algonquin retained its popularity in the literary and theatrical industries; Case wrote in 1938 that it was not uncommon to see "five or six or seven well-known writers" at the Algonquin simultaneously.<ref name="p511969349">((cite news |last=Morehouse |first=Ward III |date=October 13, 1977 |title=The Algonquin – literary landmark |page=1 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |id=((ProQuest|511969349))))</ref> After the New York Drama Critics' Circle was founded at the Algonquin in 1935, it started hosting annual dinners at the hotel,<ref>((cite book |last=Fisher |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6O5-spILIUC&pg=PA572 |title=Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930–2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-8108-7950-8 |series=Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts |page=572))</ref><ref>((cite book |last=Bloom |first=Ken |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ib2awFyFUKoC&pg=PT385 |title=Broadway: An Encyclopedia |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-135-95020-0 |page=381 |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025141604/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ib2awFyFUKoC&pg=PT385 |url-status=live))</ref> wherein the group voted on the best play of the year.<ref name="p561731364" /> The hotel's staff joined a [[labor union]] affiliated with the [[American Federation of Labor]] in 1939, and they went on [[Strike action|strike]]. Case negotiated a contract with the labor union that April,<ref>((Cite news |date=April 4, 1939 |title=Strike at Algonquin is Settled at Parley; Hotel Workers Agree to Return to Work This Morning |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/04/04/archives/strike-at-algonquin-is-settled-at-parley-hotel-workers-agree-to.html |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025224426/https://www.nytimes.com/1939/04/04/archives/strike-at-algonquin-is-settled-at-parley-hotel-workers-agree-to.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite news |date=April 4, 1939 |title=2-Meal Strike Puts Algonquin In Bit of a Fuss |page=11 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646  |id=((ProQuest|1244684361))))</ref> and the Algonquin's staff have remained unionized since then.<ref name="FM p. 111" /> In addition, the Algonquin Supper Club, the hotel's first-ever nightclub, opened in November 1939.<ref name="p1032209319" /><ref name="p1627592346" />

Case remained the owner and manager of the hotel until his death in June 1946.<ref name="p1322411155" /><ref>((Cite news |date=June 8, 1946 |title=Frank Case Dead; Host to Literati |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/06/08/archives/frank-case-dead-host-to-literate-owner-of-algonquin-hotel-76-was.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171407/https://www.nytimes.com/1946/06/08/archives/frank-case-dead-host-to-literate-owner-of-algonquin-hotel-76-was.html |url-status=live))</ref> [[Chemical Bank]], the trustee of Case's estate, placed the Algonquin for sale that August. At the time, the hotel had 192 units (143 of which were suites), as well as a bar and three restaurants.<ref>((Cite news |date=August 31, 1946 |title=Algonquin Hotel Is Placed on Market; Long Meeting Place for City's Literary Wits |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/31/archives/algonquin-hotel-is-placed-on-market-long-meeting-place-for-citys.html |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022001916/https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/31/archives/algonquin-hotel-is-placed-on-market-long-meeting-place-for-citys.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite news |date=September 1, 1946 |title=$1,500,000 Is Asked For the Algonquin: Hotel Placed on Sale by Trustees of Case Estate |page=34 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646  |id=((ProQuest|1268020449))))</ref>

=== Bodne ownership ===
In September 1946, Chemical Bank sold the hotel for $1 million<ref>((Cite news |date=September 28, 1946 |title=Algonquin Hotel Sold; Southern Business Man Reported as Buyer at $1,000,000 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/09/28/archives/algonquin-hotel-sold-southern-business-man-reported-as-buyer-at.html |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022001859/https://www.nytimes.com/1946/09/28/archives/algonquin-hotel-sold-southern-business-man-reported-as-buyer-at.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite news |date=September 26, 1946 |title=Algonquin Sold, Owner's Name Not Disclosed: 'Prominent Business Man' Pays $1,000,000; Hotel to Retain Individuality |page=19A |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646  |id=((ProQuest|1291163478))))</ref> to [[Ben Bodne]] of [[Charleston, South Carolina]], who acquired the [[Title (property)|title]] to the property the next month.<ref>((cite magazine |date=October 21, 1946 |title=Sale of a Wayward Inn |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,855539,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=September 3, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105073016/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,855539,00.html |archive-date=November 5, 2007))</ref><ref>((Cite news |date=October 11, 1946 |title=Takes Title to Algonquin |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/10/11/archives/takes-title-to-algonquin.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171404/https://www.nytimes.com/1946/10/11/archives/takes-title-to-algonquin.html |url-status=live))</ref> Bodne and his wife Mary had stayed there during their honeymoon in 1924,<ref>((cite web |last=Dana |first=Robert |date=April 16, 1951 |title=Algonquin is Rich in Tradition |url=http://www.tipsontables.com/algonquin.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818182604/http://tipsontables.com/algonquin.html |archive-date=August 18, 2007 |access-date=September 3, 2007 |work=[[New York World-Telegram]] |via=Tips On Tables))</ref> and Ben had promised Mary that he would one day buy the hotel.<ref name="p282607709" /><ref name="p561731364" /> The hotel's plumbing had not been updated in two decades, and the basement had sustained water damage following the demolition of the Hippodrome several years prior.<ref name="p11135407872">((cite news |last=Libman Block |first=Jean |date=March 19, 1961 |title=The Legend on 44th Street: the Famous Old Algonquin Hotel Proudly Spends Buckets of Money to Keep Everything Looking Unchanged |page=F4 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646  |id=((ProQuest|1327520751))))</ref> Bodne owned the hotel for the next four decades,<ref>((Cite news |last=Lambert |first=Bruce |date=May 15, 1992 |title=Ben B. Bodne, 88, President and Owner Of Algonquin Hotel |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/15/obituaries/ben-b-bodne-88-president-and-owner-of-algonquin-hotel.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171402/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/15/obituaries/ben-b-bodne-88-president-and-owner-of-algonquin-hotel.html |url-status=live))</ref> occupying the suite in which Case and his family had once lived.<ref name="p546422633">((cite news |last=Hulse |first=Jerry |date=June 7, 1981 |title=The Algonquin: A Civilized Place in the City of Chrome |page=F8 |work=The Hartford Courant |id=((ProQuest|546422633))))</ref> Ben and Mary Bodne had two daughters, both of whom were married; their respective husbands both eventually became managers of the hotel.<ref name="FM p. 112">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=112))</ref> Ben and Mary's sons-in-law Sidney Colby and Andrew Anspach initially were hired as the hotel's vice presidents.<ref name="p115948178">((cite news |last=Jaffe |first=Natalie |date=October 25, 1964 |title=Surreptitious Changes Updating Algonquin: Hotel Retains an Air of Long Ago With a Brighter Look |page=R1 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |id=((ProQuest|115948178))))</ref> Colby became the hotel's manager in 1951,<ref>((Cite news |date=November 11, 1951 |title=Promoted to Manager Of the Algonquin Hotel |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/11/11/archives/promoted-to-manager-of-the-algonquin-hotel.html |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025235251/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/11/11/archives/promoted-to-manager-of-the-algonquin-hotel.html |url-status=live))</ref> and Anspach had taken over as managing director by the 1970s.<ref name="nyt-1979-03-23" />

==== Initial modifications ====
[[File:W 44 St Sep 2021 06.jpg|thumb|Detail of the bay windows]]
Bodne announced plans in 1947 to renovate the hotel for $100,000.<ref>((Cite news |date=February 23, 1947 |title=Improving Algonquin; New Owner Spending $100,000 on Hotel on 44th Street |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/02/23/archives/improving-algonquin-new-owner-spending-100000-on-hotel-on-44th.html |access-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022001900/https://www.nytimes.com/1947/02/23/archives/improving-algonquin-new-owner-spending-100000-on-hotel-on-44th.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite news |date=February 23, 1947 |title=The Algonquin Renovation to Cost $100,000: Ben Bodne jr., New Owner Promises to Retain Homey Quality of the House |page=D1 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646  |id=((ProQuest|1319989227))))</ref><ref name="p1627514561">((cite magazine |last=Schneider |first=Ben |date=February 27, 1947 |title=Resorts Dining—dancing—restaurants: Night Clubs: Hotel Algonquin Plan Many Improvements |magazine=Women's Wear |volume=74 |issue=41 |pages=56 |id=((ProQuest|1627514561))))</ref> John Martin, the hotel's general manager of nine years, helped Bodne with the improvements, which included refurbishing all the rooms and adding a refrigeration plant.<ref name="p1627514561" /> The renovations also included new air-conditioners and televisions in each room.<ref name="p561731364" /> Bodne replaced 300 chairs, beds, and tables with new furnishings in the same style, and he also repainted the walls to their original colors.<ref name="FM p. 109">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=109))</ref>

Under Bodne's ownership, the Algonquin became the first hotel in New York City to replace its hotel keys with electronic key cards.<ref name="p282607709" /><ref name="p607932398">((cite news |date=June 21, 1987 |title=Algonquin's new owner pledges to retain hotel's revered traditions |page=J8 |work=Chicago Tribune |id=((ProQuest|607932398))))</ref> The hotel was among the first in New York City to give walkie-talkies to its staff and install smoke detectors in its rooms.<ref name="p282607709" /><ref name="p11135407872" /> After Bodne's purchase, the hotel continued to host literary and theatrical meetings, including those of the Drama Critics' Circle; the [[Outer Critics Circle Award|Outer Circle]], composed of theatrical critics who did not live in the New York metropolitan area; and the PEN Club, composed of fiction writers.<ref name="p561731364" /> Colby said in 1952 that the Algonquin "often seems like a small, non-political [[United Nations]]" because guests came from around the world.<ref name="p561731364" />

Bodne conducted additional renovations through the 1950s and 1960s, ordering new furniture and draperies in the same style as the hotel's original furnishings. The hotel's rooms were redecorated in an 18th-century English style, with bedspreads and lamps from department stores.<ref name="p11135407872" /><ref name="p115948178" /> Bodne also installed refrigerators and TV sets concealed within walnut bureaus; the TVs and refrigerators could be removed as needed.<ref name="p11135407872" /><ref name="p169673914">((cite news |last=Ehrlich |first=Arnold W. |date=January 29, 1978 |title=The Algonquin: civility, celebrities, and an enduring old-shoe aura |page=H14 |work=Chicago Tribune |id=((ProQuest|169673914))))</ref> The hotel received modern wiring, plumbing, and heating systems;<ref name="p11135407872" /><ref name="p115948178" /> the new heating system reduced the hotel's heating costs by 25 percent.<ref>((Cite news |date=September 12, 1960 |title=Heat Timing Held Value in Building; Supplier Advises Selective Improvements to Gain Increase in Income |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/09/12/archives/heat-timing-held-value-in-building-supplier-advises-selective.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024154356/https://www.nytimes.com/1960/09/12/archives/heat-timing-held-value-in-building-supplier-advises-selective.html |url-status=live))</ref> Around 1963, stage designer [[Oliver Smith (designer)|Oliver Smith]] redecorated the hotel's Rose Room with white, gilded, and rose draperies,<ref name="p115948178" /> designing the room in a manner similar to a stage set.<ref>((Cite news |last=Giovannini |first=Joseph |date=February 24, 1983 |title=For Theater Set Designers, All Home's a Stage |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/24/garden/for-theater-set-designers-all-home-s-a-stage.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024185011/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/24/garden/for-theater-set-designers-all-home-s-a-stage.html |url-status=live))</ref> Most guests were unaware of the renovation work, as it was largely conducted at night.<ref name="p11135407872" /><ref name="p115948178" />

==== Changing clientele ====
By the early 1960s, major literary and theatrical figures were beginning to favor more upscale hostelries, and "the poorer actor could not afford Algonquin prices".<ref>((cite news |last=Whittaker |first=Herbert |date=January 18, 1960 |title=Showbusiness: Algonquin Hotel is Still Favored |page=28 |work=The Globe and Mail |id=((ProQuest|1288376212))))</ref> Even so, the bar and restaurants were often full.<ref name="p115948178" /> The Algonquin still had a relatively small capacity compared to newer hotels, and it had only two elevators, one of which was used for freight during off-peak periods.<ref name="p11135407872" /> Unlike other hotels with automatic elevators, the Algonquin still employed [[elevator operator]]s; when the hotel's elevators were replaced in 1965, the new elevator cabs were deliberately designed without space for automatic buttons.<ref>((Cite news |last=Witehouse |first=Franklin |date=August 6, 1967 |title=Hotels Join Trend to Automatic Elevators; But Some Cling to Older Note of Operator Service |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/06/archives/hotels-join-trend-to-automatic-elevators-but-some-cling-to-older.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024165138/https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/06/archives/hotels-join-trend-to-automatic-elevators-but-some-cling-to-older.html |url-status=live))</ref> In addition, it did not offer gaudy entertainment or host private parties; the only visible symbol of luxury was the dining room's crystal chandelier, which the hotel had bought in the 1930s for $25.<ref name="p11135407872" /> The Algonquin's staff knew many of the guests by name,<ref name="p11135407872" /><ref name="p115948178" /> and its valet was friends with many of the hotel's theatrical guests.<ref name="p11135407872" /> Following an extensive marketing campaign in Europe in the mid-1960s, the Algonquin became popular among European travelers. To cater to these new guests, Smith designed a new marquee above the entrance, which was installed in 1965.<ref name="nyt-1965-07-23" /> ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine, which had been established at the hotel, hosted a party for the Algonquin's 75th anniversary in 1977.<ref name="p511969349" /><ref>((cite news |last=Winfrey |first=Carey |date=October 19, 1977 |title=Toasts Around the Table on the Algonquin's 75th |page=B1 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |id=((ProQuest|158324834))))</ref><ref name="FM p. 113">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=113))</ref>

By the late 1970s, the Algonquin employed close to 200 staff members, about one for each unit on average.<ref name="p169673914" /><ref name="p511969349" /> The hotel remained popular, despite not offering any weekend discounts, as newer hotels did.<ref name="p169673914" /><ref name="nyt-1979-03-23">((Cite news |last=Crossette |first=Barbara |date=March 23, 1979 |title=Hotel Holiday: How Suite It Is |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/23/archives/hotel-holiday-how-suite-it-is-holiday-in-a-hotel-how-suite-it-is.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=August 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810195942/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/23/archives/hotel-holiday-how-suite-it-is-holiday-in-a-hotel-how-suite-it-is.html |url-status=live))</ref> The Algonquin also ran few formal advertisements, instead obtaining most of its business through [[word-of-mouth marketing]]. Nightly room rates were relatively cheap, ranging from $43 to $80, so the hotel had many repeat guests. Staff recorded each guest's needs and preferences on index cards.<ref name="p169673914" /> Many of the hotel's staff were employed there for several years, long enough to memorize guests' preferences.<ref name="p546422633" /> The "Algonquinites list" comprised nearly 5,000 names.<ref name="p158426226">((cite news |last=Sanders |first=Doris |date=October 21, 1977 |title=The Algonquin: Living Up to Its Famous Name |page=K32 |work=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |id=((ProQuest|158426226))))</ref>

The hotel's Oak Room reopened as a [[cabaret]] venue at the end of 1980.<ref name="p2598187728" /> The units were refurbished again in the mid-1980s. The Algonquin's room rates continued to be cheaper than those at the city's other hotels.<ref>((Cite news |last=Hornblower |first=Margot |date=December 29, 1985 |title=Getting There is Half the Fun; the Other Half is an Elegant Hotel |page=J.7 |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |id=((proQuest|1827411199))))</ref><ref>((cite news |last=Carro |first=Geraldine |date=February 12, 1984 |title=Checking In . . .: . . . at New York's Small Hotels |page=E6 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |id=((ProQuest|138368337))))</ref> Even so, [[Ward Morehouse III]] wrote in 1981 that the Algonquin "just never seems to worry about the so-called 'bottom line', or profit picture, despite the fact it is one of the most reasonably priced first-class hotels in the city."<ref name="p1038966491">((cite news |id=((ProQuest|1038966491)) |title=A Manhattan merry-go-round in hotels |last=Morehouse |first=Ward, III |date=February 24, 1981 |page= |work=The Christian Science Monitor))</ref>

=== Aoki ownership ===
[[File:The Algonquin Hotel - NYC (52302250011).jpg|thumb|View of 44th Street entrance]]
Bodne sold the hotel to Caesar Park Hotels, a subsidiary of Japanese company [[Aoki Corporation]], for $29 million in June 1987.<ref>((Cite news |last=Selvin |first=Barbara W. |date=June 12, 1987 |title=A New Page Turns at the Algonquin |pages=20 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111731139/a-new-page-turns-at-the/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171404/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111731139/a-new-page-turns-at-the/ |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="n111729625">((Cite news |date=June 12, 1987 |title=Japanese company buys the Algonquin |pages=22 |work=The Journal News |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111729625/japanese-company-buys-the-algonquin/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171402/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111729625/japanese-company-buys-the-algonquin/ |url-status=live))</ref> The sale came four months after Bodne had publicly denied a rumor that he was considering selling the hotel;<ref name="n111729625" /> he had said that he would relinquish the Algonquin "the day it needed self-service elevators".<ref name="nyt-2000-03-02">((Cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=March 2, 2000 |title=Mary Bodne, Ex-Owner of Algonquin Hotel, Dies at 93 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/02/nyregion/mary-bodne-ex-owner-of-algonquin-hotel-dies-at-93.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024190659/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/02/nyregion/mary-bodne-ex-owner-of-algonquin-hotel-dies-at-93.html |url-status=live))</ref> Aoki's purchase marked the first time that a company or a foreign entity had owned the hotel,<ref>((Cite news |last=Iverem |first=Esther |date=June 12, 1987 |title=The Algonquin in ((sic |nolink=y |expected=is)) Sold to Japanese Hotelier |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/12/nyregion/the-algonquin-in-sold-to-japanese-hotelier.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171410/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/12/nyregion/the-algonquin-in-sold-to-japanese-hotelier.html |url-status=live))</ref> and it was part of a trend of foreign investment in New York City buildings in the late 1980s.<ref>((cite news |last=Sachs |first=Susan |date=November 20, 1989 |title=Foreign investors boost holdings, but also boost the local economy |page=1 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id=((ProQuest|278137990))))</ref> Ben Bodne continued to live at the Algonquin until he died in 1992, after which Mary Bodne remained there until her own death in 2000.<ref name="FM p. 113" /><ref name="nyt-2000-03-02" /> Aoki promised to preserve the hotel's traditions, including maintaining the Oak Room and Rose Room as dining spaces.<ref name="p607932398" /><ref>((Cite news |last=Mulligan |first=Hugh A. |date=August 19, 1987 |title=Despite new owners, the Algonquin's not at wit's end |pages=11B |work=Poughkeepsie Journal |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111730835/despite-new-owners-the-algonquins-not/ |access-date=October 21, 2022))</ref> The hotel's elevators were in dire need of upgrades; decades earlier, writer [[James Thurber]] had joked that the hotel's literary guests "became writers while waiting for the elevators".<ref>((cite news |last=Greenberg |first=Peter S. |date=September 17, 1989 |title=Slow Elevators: A Rising Focus at Hotels |page=B3 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id=((ProQuest|1952922835))))</ref>

In 1989, Aoki began renovating the hotel to designs by architect John Ciardullo and designer Laura Gottwald.<ref name="nyt-1989-05-043" /> [[Tishman Realty & Construction]] carried out the project.<ref name="nyt-1990-07-29">((Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=July 29, 1990 |title=Commercial Property: Midtown Hotel Renovations; $52 Million Drake Project Adds 2 Elevator Shafts |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/29/realestate/commercial-property-midtown-hotel-renovations-52-million-drake-project-adds-2.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024021204/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/29/realestate/commercial-property-midtown-hotel-renovations-52-million-drake-project-adds-2.html |url-status=live))</ref> The hotel's 170 rooms were redecorated in a Victorian style, with wooden trim and sliding doors in each room, as well as wallpaper, tapestries, and fabrics with early-20th-century designs.<ref name="nyt-1989-05-043" /> Some of the rooms on the second floor were removed to make way for an expansion of the hotel's meeting rooms.<ref name="nyt-1990-07-29" /> One of the suites was renamed the Round Table Suite and filled with Algonquin Round Table memorabilia.<ref name="nyt-1994-06-28">((Cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=June 28, 1994 |title=Wit at the Round Table: Was It, Er, Um, Square? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/28/arts/wit-at-the-round-table-was-it-er-um-square.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021191232/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/28/arts/wit-at-the-round-table-was-it-er-um-square.html |url-status=live))</ref> The old operator-controlled elevators were supplanted by self-service elevators,<ref name="nyt-2000-03-02" /> and the electrical systems were replaced as well.<ref name="FM pp. 113–114">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|pp=113–114))</ref> The owners installed a plaque in the lobby, describing the hotel's history; the plaque had to be remade because it contained so many spelling and grammatical errors.<ref name="p140493110">((cite news |date=August 8, 1991 |title=Illiterary Hangout: Algonquin Hotel Essay Flunks Literacy Test |page=D2 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |id=((ProQuest|140493110))))</ref>

The renovation took five years to complete, as the contractors only renovated three floors at a time;<ref name="FM pp. 113–114" /> it ultimately cost $20 million.<ref name="n111735112" /><ref name="p140493110" /><ref>((Cite news |last=Lyons |first=Richard D. |date=May 9, 1990 |title=Real Estate; Hotels Given Face Lifts In Manhattan |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/09/business/real-estate-hotels-given-face-lifts-in-manhattan.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024021206/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/09/business/real-estate-hotels-given-face-lifts-in-manhattan.html |url-status=live))</ref> The Algonquin was one of several hotels around Times Square that were developed or renovated in the late 1980s and 1990s.<ref>((Cite news |last=Goldberger |first=Paul |date=August 15, 1990 |title=Once a Hotel Desert, Times Square Blooms |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/15/nyregion/once-a-hotel-desert-times-square-blooms.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025180427/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/15/nyregion/once-a-hotel-desert-times-square-blooms.html |archive-date=October 25, 2021))</ref> Arthur Kaptainis of the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'' wrote that the project had "cleared the funny smells without stripping the lobby of its cushiony Edwardian elegance".<ref name="p432445462">((Cite news |last=Kaptainis |first=Arthur |date=June 19, 1993 |title=The art of loitering; Lobby-dawdling in New York's grand hotels is a game with rules |page=J1 |work=The Gazette |id=((ProQuest|432445462))))</ref> The hotel was no longer known for its cheap room rates; the ''Gazette'' noted that the neighboring [[The Iroquois New York|Hotel Iroquois]] charged much less. Even so, the Algonquin remained popular among those visiting nearby Broadway theaters.<ref>((Cite news |last=Davis |first=William |date=March 31, 1990 |title=Bargain hotels getting rare in New York but they are available |page=I8 |work=The Gazette |id=((proQuest|431923455))))</ref> In 1995, Aoki added a [[James Thurber]]-themed suite to the Algonquin.<ref>((Cite news |date=September 3, 1995 |title=Travel Advisory: Hotel; A New Algonquin Suite |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/travel/travel-advisory-hotel-a-new-algonquin-suite.html |access-date=October 21, 2022))</ref>

=== Camberley and Olympus ownership ===
[[File:W 44 St Oct 2021 149.jpg|thumb|Detail of the second-story windows]]
In March 1997, the partnership of Atlanta-based [[Camberley Hotel Company]] and Dallas-based [[Olympus Real Estate]] bought the Algonquin.<ref>((Cite news |date=March 18, 1997 |title=Algonquin Hotel Sold |pages=31 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111943059/algonquin-hotel-sold/ |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024224831/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111943059/algonquin-hotel-sold/ |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite news |last=Cairns |first=Ann |date=March 17, 1997 |title=Owners of Algonquin Hope to Exploit Literary History of New York Hotel |page=B9C |work=Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |id=((ProQuest|1634296596))))</ref> The two companies paid $30 million for the hotel, which had 165 units at the time.<ref>((Cite news |last=Grant |first=Peter |date=March 12, 1997 |title=Sale is new chapter for Algonquin Hotel |pages=4 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251|via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111730127/sale-is-new-chapter-for-algonquin/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171402/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111730127/sale-is-new-chapter-for-algonquin/ |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="nyt-1997-03-13">((Cite news |last=Myerson |first=Allen R. |date=March 13, 1997 |title=Algonquin May Go To U.S. Companies |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/13/nyregion/algonquin-may-go-to-us-companies.html |access-date=October 21, 2022))</ref> The bedrooms were small by modern standards, and the Algonquin also had extremely slow elevators, mouse infestations, constant hot-water interruptions, and bad food.<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /> Camberley planned to renovate the hotel, raise nightly room rates from $180 to $200, and resell the Algonquin in five to seven years.<ref name="nyt-1997-03-13" /> The new owners were initially unaware of the hotel's historical significance, as Camberley president Ian Lloyd-Jones said: "We thought we were looking at a normal piece of real estate with a great location that had been underperforming in the hands of absentee owners for the last 10 years."<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /> ''[[The New York Observer]]'' wrote that, at the time of Camberley and Olympus's acquisition, "the publishing scene [had] long since dispersed".<ref name="p333516351">((Cite news |date=April 8, 2002 |title=The Transom |page=3 |work=The New York Observer |url=https://observer.com/2002/04/the-transom-87/ |access-date=October 24, 2022 |id=((proQuest|333516351)) |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024235958/https://observer.com/2002/04/the-transom-87/ |url-status=live))</ref>

Camberley officials announced plans to spend $4 million on a "discreet" renovation of the entrance and lobby.<ref>((Cite news |last=Holusha |first=John |date=April 16, 1997 |title=Flush With Cash, Hotels Renovate |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/16/nyregion/flush-with-cash-hotels-renovate.html |access-date=October 21, 2022))</ref> Some hotel regulars wrote letters to Lloyd-Jones, daring him "to change a thing".<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /> Camberley hired [[Alexandra Champalimaud]] to design the renovation,<ref name="p234919504" /><ref name="FM p. 114">((harvnb|ps=.|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|p=114))</ref> which ultimately cost $5.5 million.<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /><ref name="p234919504" /><ref name="p433297615" /> The hotel's owners demolished the Rose Room to make way for an expansion of the lobby,<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /><ref name="p433297615" /> and they added eight standard rooms and one suite.<ref name="n111730564">((Cite news |last=Herman |first=Eric |date=June 27, 2002 |title=Algonquin sold for 35M |pages=38 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251|via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111730564/algonquin-sold-for-35meric-herman/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171402/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111730564/algonquin-sold-for-35meric-herman/ |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="p333516351" /> [[Natalie Ascencios]] was also commissioned to create a painting of several Round Table members, which was then hung in the lobby.<ref name="FM p. 114" /> By the beginning of the 21st century, the Algonquin was one of several boutique hotels on that block of 44th Street, along with the Iroquois, Mansfield, and Sofitel.<ref name="nyt-2001-01-07" /><ref name="n111944249">((Cite news |last=Mendoza |first=George |date=April 30, 2000 |title=Algonquin, Iroquois, Mansfield Hotels Live Up to Legendary Status |pages=81, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111944249/hotels-nyc/ 85] |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111944210/algonquin-iroquois-mansfield-hotels/ |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024233452/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111944210/algonquin-iroquois-mansfield-hotels/ |url-status=live))</ref> Camberley and Olympus placed the hotel for sale in January 2001, receiving bids from about 20 potential buyers.<ref name="p333516351" /> The hotel saw decreases in visitation following the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001.<ref>((Cite news |last=Herman |first=Eric |date=September 28, 2001 |title=Big season gone bad for hotels |pages=95 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251|via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96006306/big-season-gone-bad-for-hotelseric/ |access-date=February 21, 2022 |archive-date=February 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221211912/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96006306/big-season-gone-bad-for-hotelseric/ |url-status=live))</ref> [[Bernard Goldberg (businessman)|Bernard Goldberg]], who had been in contract to buy the hotel at the time, canceled his plans following the attacks.<ref name="p333516351" />

=== Miller Global renovation ===
[[Miller Global Properties]] acquired the Algonquin from Camberley in June 2002 for an estimated $35 million.<ref name="n111730564" /><ref>((Cite news |last=Begay |first=Jason |date=June 26, 2002 |title=Metro Briefing &#124; New York: Manhattan: Algonquin Hotel Sold |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/nyregion/metro-briefing-new-york-manhattan-algonquin-hotel-sold.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171402/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/nyregion/metro-briefing-new-york-manhattan-algonquin-hotel-sold.html |url-status=live))</ref> The Algonquin's visitor numbers largely recovered within two years of the attacks.<ref>((cite news |last=Diop |first=Julie Claire |date=March 23, 2003 |title=Hotels Set to Protect Guests, Staff |page=A42 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id=((ProQuest|279654780))))</ref> [[Anthony Melchiorri]] was hired as the hotel's new general manager.<ref>((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|pp=114–115))</ref> Miller Global spent $3 million on renovating the hotel.<ref name="Bleyer">((cite news |last=Bleyer |first=Jennifer |date=October 17, 2004 |title=A Child of the Algonquin Looks for a New Generation of Wits |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/nyregion/17algo.html |access-date=September 16, 2007))</ref><ref name="p249592497">((Cite news |last=Bray |first=Roger |date=June 22, 2004 |title=New look for historic Algonquin |page=13 |work=Financial Times |id=((proQuest|249592497))))</ref> When the hotel had been sold, the previous owner had relocated the first painting to the [[Martha Washington Inn]] in Virginia, so Miller Global hired Ascencios to create another painting of the Round Table's members.<ref name="FM p. 114" /> This painting was installed in the Oak Room in advance of the Algonquin's centennial.<ref name="FM p. 114" /><ref name="nyt-2002-11-19" /> As part of the renovation, Miller Global closed the Algonquin entirely in June 2004;<ref name="p249592497" /><ref>((cite news |last=Fleisher |first=Lisa |date=June 26, 2004 |title=While the Cat's Away; Algonquin Hotel's Puss Checks Out During Rehab |page=18 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251|id=((ProQuest|305884759))))</ref> this was the first time that the Algonquin had been fully closed in its history.<ref name="globe" /> During the closure, Miller Global installed high-speed internet connections and flat-screen TVs in all of the hotel's rooms.<ref name="FM p. 114" /><ref name="Getlin 2004" />

When the hotel reopened in August 2004, the owners offered discounts to guests who owned old hotel memorabilia,<ref>((cite news |last1=Andre |first1=Mila |last2=Kesner |first2=Julian |date=August 29, 2004 |title=Deals of the Week |page=5 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251|id=((ProQuest|305902944))))</ref> and the restaurant offered discounted lunches to authors.<ref name="Bleyer" /> Melchiorri developed a $10,000 martini to mark the completion of the renovation.<ref name="Getlin 2004" /><ref name="NBC News 2004" /> Bodne's grandson David Colby pushed for Miller Global executives to revive the hotel's literary traditions, saying: "The Algonquin has greater potential than 100 percent occupancy."<ref name="Bleyer" /> The hotel also started lending [[iPod]]s with [[audiobook]]s to its guests.<ref>((Cite magazine |last=Maughan |first=Shannon |date=April 25, 2005 |title=Round Table Tunes In |volume=252 |issue=17 |page=12 |id=((ProQuest|197106727)) |magazine=Publishers Weekly))</ref><ref>((Cite news |date=May 21, 2005 |title=Algonquin Hotel offers audiobooks on iPods |pages=11 |work=The Ithaca Journal |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111950474/algonquin-hotel-offers-audiobooks-on/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025003526/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111950474/algonquin-hotel-offers-audiobooks-on/ |url-status=live))</ref> Miller Global hired [[Cushman and Wakefield]] to find a buyer for the hotel in mid-2005.<ref>((Cite news |last=Smith |first=Liz |date=July 20, 2005 |title=Beckhams want U.S. appeal |pages=23 |work=The Buffalo News |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111731989/beckhams-want-us-appealliz-smith/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021182613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111731989/beckhams-want-us-appealliz-smith/ |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((Cite web |date=August 2005 |title=On the Market: Commercial |url=https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/on-the-market-commercial-28/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Real Deal New York |language=en-US |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025155205/https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/on-the-market-commercial-28/ |url-status=live))</ref>

=== Mid-2000s to present ===
The hotel was sold again to [[HEI Hospitality]] in October 2005.<ref name="NYT20051002 web" /> Under HEI's ownership, the hotel began lending [[Amazon Kindle]]s to guests, in keeping with the hotel's literary traditions.<ref>((cite news |id=((ProQuest|409094333)) |title=Hotels hop on the handheld bandwagon |last=Yancey |first=Kitty Bean |date=June 19, 2009 |page=D2 |work=USA Today))</ref> HEI spent $4.5 million on yet another renovation of the hotel, completed in 2008,<ref name="Johnson 2008" /><ref>((cite web |last=Shott |first=Chris |date=August 8, 2008 |title=Revamped Algonquin Gives Hotel Penn a Dog Run For Its Money |url=https://observer.com/2008/08/revamped-algonquin-gives-hotel-penn-a-dog-run-for-its-money/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Observer))</ref> and they hired Gary Budge as the general manager.<ref name="Johnson 2008" /><ref name="FM p. 115">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=115))</ref> In September 2010, the Algonquin Hotel became affiliated with the [[Marriott International]] chain's Autograph Collection brand,<ref>((cite web |title=Algonquin Hotel checks in with Marriott International |website=Crain's New York Business |date=September 17, 2010 |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100919/SUB/309199966/algonquin-hotel-checks-in-with-marriott-international |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023205515/https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100919/SUB/309199966/algonquin-hotel-checks-in-with-marriott-international |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |url-status=live |access-date=October 25, 2022))</ref><ref>((cite web |date=September 20, 2010 |title=NYC's Algonquin to Become Marriott |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2010/09/20/nycs-algonquin-to-become-marriott |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Daily Beast))</ref><ref name="p755106086">((Cite news |date=September 21, 2010 |title=Marriott snatches up Algonquin hotel |page=10 |work=AM New York |id=((proQuest|755106086))))</ref> but the hotel retained several of its traditions, including its name and its cat.<ref>((cite web |last1=Chait |first1=Jonathan |last2=Barkan |first2=Ross |last3=Shapiro |first3=Lila |last4=Prater |first4=Nia |last5=Kilgore |first5=Ed |last6=Hartmann |first6=Margaret |date=September 20, 2010 |title=The New Marriott-Owned Algonquin Hotel Will Keep at Least Part of Its Soul Intact |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/09/the_new_marriott-owned_algonqu.html |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Intelligencer |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025151751/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/09/the_new_marriott-owned_algonqu.html |url-status=live))</ref> HEI continued to own the hotel but paid a franchise fee to become part of Marriott's rewards program.<ref name="FM p. 115" /><ref name="p808469815">((cite magazine |last=Fickenscher |first=Lisa |date=November 1, 2010 |title=Marriott to multiply in NY |magazine=Crain's New York Business |volume=26 |issue=44 |page=2 |id=((ProQuest|808469815))))</ref> The affiliation with Marriott came amid an increase in [[tourism in New York City]].<ref name="p808469815" />

By mid-2011, HEI was negotiating to resell the hotel to [[MassMutual]] subsidiary [[Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors]].<ref>((cite web |date=June 2, 2011 |title=Algonquin Hotel may change hands |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110602/REAL_ESTATE/110609972/algonquin-hotel-may-change-hands |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Crain's New York Business))</ref><ref>((Cite web |date=June 2, 2011 |title=Algonquin Hotel may be sold |url=https://therealdeal.com/2011/06/02/hei-hotels-may-sell-landmarked-algonquin-hotel-in-midtown-to-massmutual-s-cornerstone-real-estate-advisers/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Real Deal New York |language=en-US |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025155205/https://therealdeal.com/2011/06/02/hei-hotels-may-sell-landmarked-algonquin-hotel-in-midtown-to-massmutual-s-cornerstone-real-estate-advisers/ |url-status=live))</ref> Cornerstone bought the hotel that June for about $80 million, becoming the hotel's fifth owner in 15 years.<ref>((Cite web |date=June 8, 2011 |title=Algonquin Hotel trades for $76 million |url=https://therealdeal.com/2011/06/08/algonquin-hotel-trades-for-76-million/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Real Deal New York |language=en-US |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025155205/https://therealdeal.com/2011/06/08/algonquin-hotel-trades-for-76-million/ |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite web |last=Geiger |first=Daniel |date=June 3, 2011 |title=The Algonquin Hotel sells for $82 million |url=https://rew-online.com/the-algonquin-hotel-sells-for-82-million/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Real Estate Weekly |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025155206/https://rew-online.com/the-algonquin-hotel-sells-for-82-million/ |url-status=live))</ref> In late 2011, Cornerstone announced that it would close the Algonquin for renovations for four months.<ref>((cite web |date=November 8, 2011 |title=Major renovation to shut Algonquin Hotel |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20111108/HOSPITALITY_TOURISM/111109897/major-renovation-to-shut-algonquin-hotel |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Crain's New York Business))</ref><ref>((Cite web |date=November 9, 2011 |title=Algonquin Hotel to undergo four-month renovation, housing prices in NYC exceed peak relative to median income ... and more |url=https://therealdeal.com/2011/11/09/algonquin-hotel-to-undergo-four-month-renovation-housing-prices-in-nyc-exceed-peak-relative-to-median-income-and-more/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Real Deal New York |language=en-US |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025174704/https://therealdeal.com/2011/11/09/algonquin-hotel-to-undergo-four-month-renovation-housing-prices-in-nyc-exceed-peak-relative-to-median-income-and-more/ |url-status=live))</ref> The Algonquin was closed for renovations in February 2012, during which time the Oak Room was closed permanently.<ref name="Playbill 2012" /><ref name="nyt-2012-02-04" /><ref name="wsj-2012-02-03" /> The hotel reopened that May after the renovations were completed.<ref>((cite web |date=May 29, 2012 |title=Algonquin Hotel reopens after renovation |url=https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/Algonquin-Hotel-reopens-after-renovation |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Travel Weekly |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025174410/https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/Algonquin-Hotel-reopens-after-renovation |url-status=live))</ref> Due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]], the Algonquin was closed from March 2020 to April 2021.<ref>((cite web |last=Hall |first=Miriam |title='We Have To Rip The Band-Aid Off': The Great NYC Hotel Reawakening Is On |website=Bisnow |date=April 15, 2021 |url=https://www.bisnow.com/new-york/news/hotel/like-starting-a-steamship-nyc-hotels-begin-reopening-as-hope-appears-on-the-horizon-108539 |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110150932/https://www.bisnow.com/new-york/news/hotel/like-starting-a-steamship-nyc-hotels-begin-reopening-as-hope-appears-on-the-horizon-108539 |url-status=live))</ref> [[Stonehill Taylor]] further renovated the hotel in 2022, including the Algonquin Round Table, the Blue Bar, and the Oak Room.<ref name="Hospitality Design 2022" /><ref name="Nast 2022" /><ref>((cite web |date=July 6, 2022 |title=Look behind the scenes at the Algonquin Hotel's makeover |url=https://untappedcities.com/2022/07/06/algonquin-hotel-tour/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |website=Untapped New York |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021144821/https://untappedcities.com/2022/07/06/algonquin-hotel-tour/ |url-status=live))</ref>

== Traditions ==
=== Cats ===
The Algonquin Hotel has kept a cat in its lobby since the late 1920s.<ref name="Gleason 2019">((cite web |last=Gleason |first=Will |date=October 1, 2019 |title=Meet the Algonquin Hotel cat, the fanciest kitty in New York City |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/meet-the-algonquin-hotel-cat-the-fanciest-kitty-in-new-york-city-100119 |access-date=October 21, 2022 |website=Time Out New York))</ref> The practice was formerly thought to have originated in the 1930s,<ref>((Cite news |last=Nir |first=Sarah Maslin |date=August 13, 2011 |title=Herding Cats on a Runway at the Algonquin |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/nyregion/at-the-algonquin-herding-cats-on-the-runway.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021144820/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/nyregion/at-the-algonquin-herding-cats-on-the-runway.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="Carlson 2017">((cite web |last=Carlson |first=Jen |date=August 2, 2017 |title=Legendary Algonquin Hotel Gets New Cat Supervisor |url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/legendary-algonquin-hotel-gets-new-cat-supervisor |access-date=October 21, 2022 |website=Gothamist |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021144822/https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/legendary-algonquin-hotel-gets-new-cat-supervisor |url-status=live))</ref> but a book by Frank Case indicates that he had cared for a cat named Billy until the feline's death in the 1920s.<ref name="Carlson 2017" /> According to administrative assistant Alice de Almeida (the hotel's "chief cat officer"<ref name="Gleason 2019" />), the current practice started when the hotel took in a stray male cat that was originally named Rusty.<ref name="Gleason 2019" /><ref name="FM p. 126">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=126))</ref> When a guest was sick, Rusty frequently went to that guest's room and stayed there until they had recovered.<ref>((cite news |date=September 7, 1977 |title=As Homes Go, It's the Cat's Meow |page=72 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |id=((ProQuest|123186845))))</ref> Rusty was renamed Hamlet at the suggestion of John Barrymore, who at the time was performing on Broadway in the play ''[[Hamlet]]''.<ref name="Gleason 2019" /><ref name="NPR.org 2006">((cite web |date=July 29, 2006 |title=The Algonquin Hotel's Feline Celebrity |url=https://www.npr.org/2006/07/29/5590366/the-algonquin-hotels-feline-celebrity |access-date=October 21, 2022 |website=NPR |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021144826/https://www.npr.org/2006/07/29/5590366/the-algonquin-hotels-feline-celebrity |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="AP NEWS 2021">((cite web |date=April 21, 2021 |title=The Algonquin Hotel throws a 'purrty,' feline fashion show |url=https://apnews.com/article/fashion-shows-north-america-ap-top-news-hats-fashion-edd728e8945c4d9898ae2a0ac9587291 |access-date=October 24, 2022 |website=AP NEWS |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024011955/https://apnews.com/article/fashion-shows-north-america-ap-top-news-hats-fashion-edd728e8945c4d9898ae2a0ac9587291 |url-status=live))</ref> Since then, all the male cats have been named Hamlet, while all the female cats have been named Matilda.<ref name="FM p. 126" /><ref name="NPR.org 2006" /><ref name="AP NEWS 2021" /> It is not clear why female cats are named Matilda, but all the Hamlets are named after the original cat.<ref name="FM p. 126" /> The hotel has had eight Hamlets and three Matildas in its history.<ref name="Nast 2022" /><ref name="AP NEWS 2021" /> The Algonquin acquired its current cat, Hamlet VIII, ((as of|2017|alt=in 2017)).<ref name="Carlson 2017" />

The hotel's lobby contains two feline [[tree house]]s.<ref name="Nast 2022" /><ref>((cite web |last=Young |first=Michelle |date=July 20, 2018 |title=Hamlet the Algonquin Hotel Resident Cat Has Adorable Cat Tree Houses |url=https://untappedcities.com/2018/07/20/hamlet-the-algonquin-hotel-resident-cat-has-adorable-cat-tree-houses/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |website=Untapped New York |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021144829/https://untappedcities.com/2018/07/20/hamlet-the-algonquin-hotel-resident-cat-has-adorable-cat-tree-houses/ |url-status=live))</ref> The cat's collar interacts with an electric [[geo-fence]], which prevents the cat from leaving the lobby,<ref name="Nast 2022" /><ref>((Cite news |last=Barron |first=James |title=Algonquin's Roaming Diva Cat, Matilda, Has Closer Quarters |date=December 21, 2011 |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/the-algonquins-feline-has-closer-quarters/ |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |series=City Room Blog |access-date=January 11, 2012 |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111193833/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/the-algonquins-feline-has-closer-quarters/ |url-status=live))</ref> because the [[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene]] does not permit animals in dining areas.<ref name="Gleason 2019" /> The cat has received several gifts from visitors,<ref name="Gleason 2019" /><ref name="Carlson 2017" /> including four oil paintings.<ref name="Gleason 2019" /> Many people have visited the Algonquin specifically to see the hotel's cat.<ref name="Gleason 2019" /> One of the male cats was featured in the illustrated book ''Algonquin Cat'';((efn|For the book, see: ((cite book |title=Algonquin cat: a Story |last=Schaffner |first=Val |via=Internet Archive |year=1995 |orig-year=1980 |url=https://archive.org/details/algonquincatstor0000scha |publisher=Wings Books|isbn=978-0-517-14711-5 )))) when that cat died in 1982, his obituary appeared in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' magazine.<ref>((Cite news |date=February 19, 1984 |title=Hamlet III Due at Algonquin |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/19/arts/hamlet-iii-due-at-algonquin.html |access-date=October 21, 2022))</ref> Another cat, a female [[Ragdoll]], was named 2006 cat of the year at the Westchester Cat Show.<ref name="NPR.org 2006" /><ref>((Cite news |last=Hauser |first=Brooke |date=July 9, 2006 |title=Channeling the Cat's Meow |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/nyregion/thecity/09cat.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021144821/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/nyregion/thecity/09cat.html |url-status=live))</ref>

Every August, the hotel holds a fundraiser with a feline fashion show featuring the hotel's cat.<ref name="Gleason 2019" /><ref name="Nast 2015">((cite magazine |last=Eby |first=Margaret |date=August 6, 2015 |title=A Purrfectly Adorable Night at the Algonquin Hotel's Cat Show |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/algonquin-hotels-cat-show |access-date=October 21, 2022 |magazine=Vanity Fair))</ref> The fashion shows started in the 1930s<ref name="Nast 2015" /> and have raised money for such initiatives as the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals.<ref name="AP NEWS 2021" /><ref name="Weaver 2019 l783">((cite web |last=Weaver |first=Shaye |title=Algonquin Hotel's Cat Fashion Show returns to celebrate NYC's many cultures |website=amNewYork |date=June 13, 2019 |url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/cat-fashion-show-algonquin-hotel-1-32331180/ |access-date=October 2, 2023))</ref> In addition, the hotel hosts birthday parties for its cat; these events have also served as fundraisers, such as in 2010, when Matilda III's fifteenth birthday raised money for [[North Shore Animal League America]].<ref name="wsj-2010-08-13">((Cite news |last=Heyman |first=Marshall |date=August 13, 2010 |title=Algonquin Toasts Its Famous Feline |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704407804575425741503152062 |access-date=October 25, 2022 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025151752/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704407804575425741503152062 |url-status=live))</ref> ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' wrote that the cat's birthday party "is the kind of party where you would find [...] $20 Purrtinis for sale, made of Grey Goose vodka, lychee juice, coconut, white creme de cacao and lemon juice and advertisements for Reiki treatments for cats. It is also a party where you would see a cat dressed as a fruit basket..."<ref name="wsj-2010-08-13" />

=== Other traditions ===
[[File:The Algonquin Hotel - A Piece of History (2539559941).jpg|thumb|One of the drinks served at the Algonquin, a Maker's Mark Bourbon with mango puree]]
The hotel has an eponymous cocktail, composed of [[rye whiskey]], [[Noilly Prat]] and [[pineapple]] juice.<ref>((cite news |last=Rose |first=Anthony |title=101 cocktails that shook the world #17: The Algonquin |work=The Independent |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050514/ai_n14627112 |url-status=dead |access-date=September 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505234032/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050514/ai_n14627112 |archive-date=May 5, 2008))</ref> The $10,000 "Martini on the Rock" was added to the hotel's menu in 2004;<ref name="globe">((cite news |last1=Kickham |first1=Debbi K. |date=August 23, 2014 |title=Making the magic happen for struggling hotels |work=Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2014/08/23/making-magic-happen-for-struggling-hotels/Amq5bSkW8FSmTQLh3HYrRJ/story.html |access-date=August 26, 2014 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071129/http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2014/08/23/making-magic-happen-for-struggling-hotels/Amq5bSkW8FSmTQLh3HYrRJ/story.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="NPR.org 2005">((cite web |date=March 1, 2005 |title=A $10,000 Martini at the Algonquin Hotel |url=https://www.npr.org/2005/03/01/4505397/a-10-000-martini-at-the-algonquin-hotel |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=NPR |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023201302/https://www.npr.org/2005/03/01/4505397/a-10-000-martini-at-the-algonquin-hotel |url-status=live))</ref> it consists of a [[Martini (cocktail)|martini]] of the buyer's choice with a single piece of "ice", a diamond, at the bottom of the glass.<ref name="NPR.org 2005" /> This martini was developed by Anthony Melchiorri, the hotel's general manager at the time,<ref name="NBC News 2004">((cite web |date=December 2, 2004 |title=Famed New York hotel offers $10,000 martini |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6637642 |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=NBC News |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025155206/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6637642 |url-status=live))</ref><ref name="Getlin 2004">((cite web |last=Getlin |first=Josh |date=December 2, 2004 |title=New Spin for the Round Table |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-dec-02-na-algonquin2-story.html |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025155205/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-dec-02-na-algonquin2-story.html |url-status=live))</ref> though over a decade elapsed before anyone actually bought that drink.<ref>((cite news |last1=Garvey |first1=Marianne |last2=Niemietz |first2=Brian |last3=Coleman |first3=Oli |date=June 15, 2015 |title=A not too modest proposal |page=22 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251|id=((ProQuest|1688037925))))</ref> The Blue Bar's menu includes several cocktails that allude to the TV series ''[[Mad Men]]'', in which the bar was featured.<ref>((Cite news |last=Cardwell |first=Diane |date=August 6, 2010 |title=New York Hotels Entice Customers With Lure of TV Life |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/nyregion/07hotels.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024021207/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/nyregion/07hotels.html |url-status=live))</ref> One bartender at the Algonquin, [[Hoy Wong]], was believed to be the oldest bartender in New York state;<ref>((cite news |id=((ProQuest|306053069)) |title=Vintage Barkeep. Still Stirring and Mixing as He Nears 90 |first=Adam |last=Nichols |date=August 9, 2006 |page=3 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251))</ref> by the time Wong retired in 2009, he was nearly 90 years old.<ref>((cite web |last=Meares |first=Joel |date=December 28, 2009 |title=New York's veteran waiters aren't going anywhere |url=http://archives.jrn.columbia.edu/2009/nyfoodchain.com/2009/12/28/new-yorks-veteran-waiters-arent-going-anywhere/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105175721/http://archives.jrn.columbia.edu/2009/nyfoodchain.com/2009/12/28/new-yorks-veteran-waiters-arent-going-anywhere/ |archive-date=January 5, 2015 |access-date=January 5, 2015 |work=NY Foodchain))</ref>

In the late 20th century, writers on tour could get one free night at the hotel in exchange for an autographed copy of their book.<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /><ref>((cite web |date=March 30, 2016 |title=The Top 10 Secrets of the Algonquin Hotel in NYC |url=https://untappedcities.com/2016/03/30/top-10-secrets-of-the-algonquin-hotel-in-manhattan/?displayall=true |access-date=October 24, 2022 |website=Untapped New York |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110151058/https://untappedcities.com/2016/03/30/top-10-secrets-of-the-algonquin-hotel-in-manhattan/?displayall=true |url-status=live))</ref> The practice has been amended to include a discount on standard room rates.<ref name="n111949902" /><ref>((cite web |last=Dahl |first=Elizabeth |date=November 29, 2017 |title=The Algonquin Hotel is the Most Famous Hotel You've Never Heard Of |url=https://www.themanual.com/travel/algonquin-hotel-new-york/ |access-date=October 24, 2022 |website=The Manual |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024011957/https://www.themanual.com/travel/algonquin-hotel-new-york/ |url-status=live))</ref> Additionally, in 2009, the hotel offered discounted room rates to authors who had a draft manuscript and were experiencing [[writer's block]].<ref name="p434802090" /><ref>((Cite news |last=Leo |first=Jen |date=April 5, 2009 |title=The 25% Off Deal |pages=86 |work=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111975615/the-25-off-dealjen-leo/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025141604/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111975615/the-25-off-dealjen-leo/ |url-status=live))</ref>

== Notable guests ==
Among the Algonquin's early guests were actors [[Douglas Fairbanks]],<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /><ref name="FM p. 109" /> the [[Barrymore family]],<ref name="p11135407873" /><ref name="FM p. 109" /> [[Beatrice Lillie]],<ref name="FM p. 109" /> [[Raymond Hitchcock (actor)|Raymond Hitchcock]], [[Mary Pickford]], and [[Elsie Janis]].<ref name="p11135407873" /><ref name="nyt-1927-05-09" /> [[Ethel Barrymore]] lived at a suite at the Algonquin in 1905, and her maternal uncle [[John Drew Jr.|John Drew]] lived there for 17 years.<ref name="FM p. 109" /> [[Luna Park (Coney Island, 1903)|Luna Park]] developer [[Frederic Thompson|Fred Thompson]] lived on the annex's top story, while impresarios [[Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.]] and [[Diamond Jim Brady]] frequented the hotel's cafe.<ref name="FM pp. 120–121" /><ref name="NYCL p. 3" /> [[Lady Gregory]] was the first female guest to smoke in the Algonquin's lobby in 1911,<ref name="FM p. 109" /> and Case later ejected [[Ruth Hale (playwright and actress)|Ruth Hale]] for smoking in the lobby.<ref name="FM p. 118" /> The Algonquin attracted [[vaudeville]] and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] performers and [[silent film]] actors through the 1920s. Authors such as [[H. L. Mencken]] and [[Gertrude Stein]] lived there, and [[Tallulah Bankhead]] rented a room as a teenager. Playwright [[Sinclair Lewis]] frequently ate within the Oak Room as well.<ref name="FM p. 109" /> The hotel's early guests also included poet [[Maya Angelou]] and actress [[Helen Hayes]].<ref name="p755106086" />

During the 1950s, [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] composed the score of their musical ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' at the hotel, and [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]–winning playwrights [[Mary Chase (playwright)|Mary Chase]], [[William Inge]], and [[Arthur Miller]] also stayed at the Algonquin.<ref name="FM p. 112" /> The actors [[Audrey Hepburn]], [[Elia Kazan]], and [[Vivien Leigh]] received theatrical awards in the lobby in 1952.<ref name="FM p. 118" /> At least two notables have died while staying at the hotel: filmmaker [[Preston Sturges]] in 1959 and playwright [[James Thurber]] in 1961.<ref name="FM p. 112" />

The ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' wrote in 1962 that the hotel still had many notable guests, including [[Dana Andrews]], [[Leslie Caron]], [[Charles Chaplin Jr.]], [[Barnaby Conrad]], [[Noël Coward]], [[William Faulkner]], [[John Gielgud]], [[Tyrone Guthrie]], [[John Hersey]], [[Eugène Ionesco]], [[Elsa Lanchester]], [[Jack Paar]], [[Christopher Plummer]], [[Jules Romains]], and [[Yuri Zavadsky]].<ref name="p11135407872" /> By then, the hotel also catered to a "new generation of writers", such as [[John Cheever]], [[Norman Mailer]], [[William Saroyan]], and [[Tennessee Williams]]; English actors, such as [[Laurence Olivier]], [[Joan Plowright]], and [[Tony Richardson]]; and European filmmakers, such as [[Costa-Gavras]], [[Jean-Luc Godard]], [[Louis Malle]], [[Éric Rohmer]], and [[François Truffaut]].<ref name="FM p. 113" /> Other frequent guests in the late 20th century included [[Harold Ross]], [[Simone Signoret]], and [[Yves Montand]].<ref name="n111735112" /> Fashion designers, such as [[Mary Quant]] and [[Gerald McCann (fashion designer)|Gerald McCann]], also constituted an increasing share of the Algonquin's clientele during the 1960s.<ref>((Cite news |last=Cook |first=Joan |date=April 15, 1967 |title=Hotel of the Literati Becomes a Haven of Fashion's Avant-Garde |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/04/15/archives/hotel-of-the-literati-becomes-a-haven-of-fashions-avantgarde.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024165135/https://www.nytimes.com/1967/04/15/archives/hotel-of-the-literati-becomes-a-haven-of-fashions-avantgarde.html |url-status=live))</ref> By the beginning of the 21st century, the hotel's guests included theatrical personalities such as [[Brenda Fricker]], [[Simon Gray]], [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]], [[Richard Harris]], [[Anthony Hopkins]], [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Angela Lansbury]], [[John Osborne]], [[Jonathan Pryce]], [[Stephen Rea]], [[Diana Rigg]], [[Tom Stoppard]], and [[Peter Ustinov]].<ref name="p240360593" />

=== Algonquin Round Table ===
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The Algonquin Round Table met at the hotel's Rose Room,<ref name="FM p. 119">((harvnb|Fitzpatrick|Melchiorri|2015|ps=.|p=119))</ref> "a place where a lot of slang, phrases and attitudes were shaped".<ref name="NYT20051002 web" /> The group originated from a practical joke by theatrical press agent [[John Peter Toohey]], who in June 1919 organized a luncheon to poke fun at drama critic [[Alexander Woollcott]].<ref name="p269739634" /> Initially known as the Luigi Board, after a waiter at the hotel,<ref name="nyt-1994-06-28" /><ref name="p269739634" /> the group later evolved into a group of journalists, authors, publicists, and actors who gathered over lunch in the main dining room.<ref>((cite web |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Kevin C. |title=History of the Round Table |url=http://algonquinroundtable.org/history.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928223221/http://algonquinroundtable.org/history.html |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |access-date=September 3, 2007))</ref> The Round Table's members referred to themselves as the Vicious Circle<ref name="nyt-1977-10-16">((Cite news |last=Ehrlich |first=Arnold W. |date=October 16, 1977 |title=The Algonquin at 75 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/16/archives/the-algonquin-at-75.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021171404/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/16/archives/the-algonquin-at-75.html |url-status=live))</ref> and met almost daily for nearly ten years.<ref name="p269739634" /> Its core members included [[Franklin P. Adams]], [[Robert Benchley]], [[George S. Kaufman]], [[Harpo Marx]] and [[Dorothy Parker]],<ref name="n111735112" /><ref name="nyt-1977-10-16" /> as well as Woollcott and [[Edna Ferber]].<ref name="n111735112" /><ref name="p135333359">((cite news |date=June 12, 1987 |title=Algonquin Hotel Is Sold To Unit of Japanese Firm |page=40 |work=Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |id=((ProQuest|135333359))))</ref> Playwright [[George Bernard Shaw]], actress [[Fanny Brice]], and composer [[Irving Berlin]] were among the many people who vied for invitations to eat lunch with the club.<ref name="p282607709" /><!--Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, Harpo Marx, Neysa McMein, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood and Alexander Woollcott.-->

Frank Case sent plates of "olives, popovers and celery sticks" to the Round Table's members so they would not starve.<ref name="Bleyer" /><ref name="p749787301">((Cite news |last=Earle |first=Rosalie |date=September 5, 2010 |title=Classic New York hotel recalls the 1930s: And since the 30s, the Algonquin has allowed one cat at a time to take residence there |page=F.12 |work=Sunday Gazette – Mail |id=((proQuest|749787301))))</ref> Case's daughter Margaret wrote: "First, the people who sat at the Round Table were interesting people whose doings and sayings caught and held public attention; and secondly, they were as brave, mentally, as any dashing medieval cavalier was physically brave."<ref name="nyt-1977-10-16" /> The Round Table had a reputation for being witty, although the extent of the group's wit may have been exaggerated.<ref name="nyt-1994-06-28" /> Two members of the club, [[Harold Ross]] and [[Jane Grant]], founded ''The New Yorker'' magazine.<ref>((cite web |last=Howard |first=Hannah |date=November 15, 2016 |title=Algonquin Hotel |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/hotels/algonquin-hotel |access-date=October 21, 2022 |website=Time Out New York |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021191237/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/hotels/algonquin-hotel |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((Cite news |last=Dullea |first=Georgia |date=December 27, 1992 |title=The, Uh, Royalton Round Table |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/27/style/the-uh-royalton-round-table.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021191242/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/27/style/the-uh-royalton-round-table.html |url-status=live))</ref> In celebration of this, modern hotel guests receive free copies of ''The New Yorker''.<ref name="n111949902" /><ref name="p434802090" />

The group sat at a 15-seat round table,<ref name="FM p. 119" /> but it is unknown where the original round table was relocated after the Round Table club was disbanded.<ref name="p433297615" /><ref name="FM p. 119" /> By the late 1990s, all the tables in the Rose Room were square.<ref name="p433297615" /> The Rose Room was demolished in 1998 to make way for an expansion of the lobby.<ref name="nyt-1998-05-28" /><ref name="p433297615" /> During that project, the hotel's then-owner Camberley Hotel Group added a circular table in the lobby, a homage to the former luncheon group. Hotel guests could reserve the round table; the other tables in the lobby could be used without reservation.<ref name="p433297615" /> The rebuilt round table was relocated to an alcove adjacent to the Blue Bar in 2022.<ref name="Hospitality Design 2022" />

== Reception and impact ==
By the late 20th century, the Algonquin had become known as a literary landmark, in part because of its association with the Algonquin Round Table.<ref>((harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1987|ps=.|p=1))</ref><ref>((Cite news |last=Pace |first=Eric |date=January 19, 1979 |title=Guide to the Region's Literary Landmarks |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/19/archives/guide-to-the-regions-literary-landmarks-guide-to-literary-landmarks.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024150805/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/19/archives/guide-to-the-regions-literary-landmarks-guide-to-literary-landmarks.html |url-status=live))</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote in 2021: "A list of New York literary hotspots would not be complete without the Algonquin, which played host in the 1920s to an assortment of New York writers, playwrights, journalists and actors."<ref>((Cite news |last=Jordan |first=Tina |date=August 26, 2021 |title=New York's Legendary Literary Hangouts |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/26/books/writers-favorite-places-new-york.html |access-date=October 24, 2022))</ref> Frank Case had written three books about the hotel during his lifetime,<ref name="FM p. 111" /><ref name="p511969349" /> and his daughter, Margaret Case Harriman, wrote a memoir about the hotel in 1956.<ref>((Cite news |last=Fowler |first=Gene |date=July 29, 1956 |title=Casing the Algonquin; Hotel Algonquin |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/07/29/archives/casing-the-algonquin-hotel-algonquin.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024150805/https://www.nytimes.com/1956/07/29/archives/casing-the-algonquin-hotel-algonquin.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite magazine |date=July 30, 1956 |title=Among the Arty Set |magazine=Newsweek |volume=48 |issue=5 |pages=86–87 |id=((ProQuest|1895338615))))</ref> By the hotel's 75th anniversary in 1977, it had been the subject of seven books.<ref name="p511969349" /> The hotel also received ''[[Playbill]]'' magazine's first [[George Selvin Award]] in 1977.<ref name="p158426226" />

=== Critical reception ===
Arthur Kaptainis wrote for the ''Montreal Gazette'' in 1993: "For my money (or lack thereof) the lobby is always the best place to be."<ref name="p432445462" /> A critic for the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' expressed a similar sentiment in 2000, saying that the lobby was "still regarded as the place to see and be seen", even though room rates were more expensive than at the neighboring Iroquois.<ref name="n111944249" /> Reviewers also described the relatively tranquil nature of the Algonquin compared to newer and larger hostelries. In 1990, Jerry Hulse wrote for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'': "In a city dwarfed by glass and chrome, the Algonquin remains an anachronism, a landmark of social well-being."<ref>((Cite news |last=Hulse |first=Jerry |date=October 21, 1990 |title=New York City's Friendliest Small Hotels Trendy to Traditional |page=1 |work=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |id=((ProQuest|281152281))))</ref> Similarly, a reporter from the ''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]'' wrote in 1997: "In a city of wrecking balls and cranes, plate glass and cold chrome, incessant sirens and frenetic foot traffic, the Algonquin remains an island of civility."<ref name="p260545595" /> The ''Village Voice'' described the Algonquin as one of several monuments to "New York aristocracy" on 44th Street, along with the headquarters of the New York Bar Association, Harvard Club, and Penn Club.<ref>((cite web |last=Jeffries |first=Alexis |date=April 27, 2010 |title=A Few Private New York Clubs Still Bar Women |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/04/27/a-few-private-new-york-clubs-still-bar-women/ |access-date=October 25, 2022 |website=The Village Voice |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025155205/https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/04/27/a-few-private-new-york-clubs-still-bar-women/ |url-status=live))</ref>

Some critics also wrote about the quality of the hotel itself. Rosalie Earle of the ''[[Sunday Gazette-Mail]]'' wrote in 2010: "The one-bedroom has a king bed and the living room has a pull-out couch, which makes for comfortable and affordable accommodations, when the tab is divided three ways".<ref name="p749787301" /> Following the 2012 renovation, a ''New York Times'' critic wrote that the hotel's "dowdy charm" had been removed and that "the Algonquin now feels a bit chilly and corporate".<ref>((Cite news |last=Garner |first=Dwight |date=December 14, 2012 |title=A Critic's Tour of Literary Manhattan |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/travel/a-critics-tour-of-literary-manhattan.html |access-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025163153/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/travel/a-critics-tour-of-literary-manhattan.html |url-status=live))</ref> A writer for the ''[[Palm Beach Daily News]]'' said in 2013 that the units had been enlarged into "sleek, sophisticated guest rooms and suites".<ref name="n123560235"/> By contrast, a writer for ''Red Online'' magazine said the Algonquin "now enjoys a wood-columned, now almost neo-Edwardian finish—incongruous with its central Midtown location, in the heart of theatre land".<ref name="Everett 2021" /> The [[BBC]] wrote in 2023 that, while the previous year's renovation of the lobby and Blue Bar "may not be to all purists' tastes", the hotel still retained some [[Roaring Twenties]] design details like caricatures on the walls.<ref name="Perrottet 2023 h503">((cite web | last=Perrottet | first=Tony | title=New York City's eight best literary venues | website=BBC Home | date=May 13, 2023 | url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230512-new-york-citys-eight-best-literary-venues | access-date=January 26, 2024))</ref>

=== Landmark status ===
[[File:Algonquin Hotel Landmark Sign.png|alt=New York City Landmarks Preservation Foundation plaque designating the Algonquin Hotel a New York City Landmark. The plaque was placed in 2001.|thumb|New York City Designated Landmark plaque at the Algonquin Hotel]]

The Landmarks Preservation Commission considered designating the Algonquin Hotel as an official city landmark in 1985. Unlike other city landmarks, the hotel was known more for its historical associations than for its architecture.<ref>((Cite news |last=Negron |first=Edna |date=September 5, 1985 |title=3 City Sites Eyed for Landmark Status |pages=26 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111925231/3-city-sites-eyed-for-landmark/ |access-date=October 24, 2022))</ref><ref>((Cite news |last=Schmalz |first=Jeffrey |date=September 18, 1985 |title=The Essence of a Landmark: Beauty, History or Character? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/18/nyregion/the-essence-of-a-landmark-beauty-history-or-character.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006000509/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/18/nyregion/the-essence-of-a-landmark-beauty-history-or-character.html |url-status=live))</ref> The LPC designated the Algonquin Hotel as a city landmark in September 1987.<ref name="nyt-1987-09-20">((Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Susan Heller |date=September 20, 1987 |title=City Makes It Official: Algonquin Is Landmark |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/20/nyregion/city-makes-it-official-algonquin-is-landmark.html |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=May 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526155406/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/20/nyregion/city-makes-it-official-algonquin-is-landmark.html |url-status=live))</ref><ref>((Cite news |date=September 21, 1987 |title=A center of N.Y. intellectual life gains protection |pages=3 |work=The Record |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111729402/a-center-of-ny-intellectual-life/ |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021164515/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111729402/a-center-of-ny-intellectual-life/ |url-status=live))</ref> Although the hotel's longtime owner Ben Bodne had opposed the designation,<ref name="n111729625" /> its new owner Aoki Corporation supported the city-landmark status.<ref name="p135333359" /> In designating the hotel as a landmark, the LPC cited the impact of the Algonquin Round Table and the number of other literary and theatrical figures who lodged there.<ref name="nyt-1987-09-20" />

In 1996, the hotel was designated a National Literary Landmark by the [[Friends of Libraries]]. The organization's bronze plaque is attached to the front of the hotel.<ref name="p240360593" /><ref>((cite web |last=Friends of Libraries USA |title=1996 dedications |url=http://www.folusa.org/outreach/landmarks-year/1996.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506140823/http://www.folusa.org/outreach/landmarks-year/1996.php |archive-date=May 6, 2008 |access-date=September 13, 2007))</ref> The hotel's facade contains another plaque, dedicated in 1963. This plaque commemorates a horse stable that previously occupied the site, which had belonged to either [[Jay Gould]] or W. H. Aiken.<ref>((Cite news |date=September 14, 1963 |title=Plaque Recalls Midtown Trot Races |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/09/14/archives/plaque-recalls-midtown-trot-races.html |access-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024150805/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/09/14/archives/plaque-recalls-midtown-trot-races.html |url-status=live))</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets]]
* [[List of hotels in New York City]]
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=== Sources ===
* ((cite report |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1547.pdf |title=Algonquin Hotel |date=September 15, 1987 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |ref=((harvid|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1987))))
* ((cite book |last=Case |first=Frank |title=Tales of a Wayward Inn |publisher=Garden City Publishing Co |date=1938))
* ((Cite book |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Kevin C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=coybBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 |title=The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide |last2=Melchiorri |first2=Anthony |author2-link=Anthony Melchiorri |publisher=Lyons Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-4930-1673-0))
* ((cite book |last=Gaines |first=James R. |author-link=James R. Gaines |title=Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table |publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |date=1977 |isbn=0-15-197521-3 |oclc=3016650 |ref=none))

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