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. It was designed by the architect Albert Buchman and built in 1907. Singer

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died in this hotel on April 23, 1944, from a fire that started when she fell asleep while smoking in bed. On November 21, 1955, the cartoonist and illustrator Gilbert Bundy killed himself in his apartment there, and "his body was found hanging by several neckties from a door hinge". In 2004, it became Hotel Chandler.

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