Hotel Marski (or Marski by Scandic) is a

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opened 1962 on Mannerheimintie 10 in

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. The hotel was built by

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-owned Arctia Oy and the nine-storey building with strip windows was designed in 1961 by architect

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. The hotel was housed in a residential building built in 1877 by Nikolai Kiseleff and designed by

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.Hotelli Marskin talo; Mannerheimintie 10. Lönnrotinkatu 1; Helsinki - Helsingin Kaupunginmuseo
(in Finnish) The name Marski (as well as the street name along which the hotel is located) refers to

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. Hotel Marski was opened on February 1, 1962. At that time, the hotel had 58 rooms located on the sixth and seventh floors of the house. On the lower floors was the restaurant, the department store Otra, which was reached by escalator, and the office space of the

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(KOP). The eighth floor was leased to the oil company

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. The number of hotel rooms increased in the 1970s and 1990s as the hotel expanded into other buildings in the block. The furniture designers of the hotel and restaurant included

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. Hotel Marski was a meeting place for Finland's political elite for a long time, and

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, among others, was a regular guest.Marski tuli takaisin - Projekti Uutiset
(in Finnish) Until the 1980s, the building housed the

M-klubi M-klubi was a restaurant and private club located at the basement of the Hotel Marski on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland, from 1962 up to the 1980s. The restaurant could seat 225 people. Its most famous members included mining counselors, tr ...

club, which was only open to club members. In addition, the building housed the Helsinki International Press Club, founded by the Helsinki Newspaper Association in 1962 or so-called Press club. In 2010, the property was purchased by

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Pension Fund, with Alko Pension Fund as the seller. The hotel then had 222 rooms. The hotel was renovated between 2018 and 2019 and reopened in early summer 2019. The hotel now has a total of 363 rooms. Kahvila 7.01, a

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located on the street level of the hotel, is named after Mannerheim, known as a regular man; Mannerheim reportedly wanted to drink his morning coffee at exactly one minute over seven in the morning.Helsingin Uutiset: Mannerheimin aromikas aamurutiini antoi nimen Helsingin klassikkohotellin uudelle kahvilalle
(in Finnish)

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Hotel Marski
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- Official Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Marski Hotels in Helsinki Hotels established in 1962 Kamppi

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