The Redbury New York (formerly, the Women's Hotel, Martha Washington Hotel, Hotel Thirty Thirty, Hotel Lola, and King & Grove New York) is a historic

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at 29 East 29th Street, between Madison Avenue and

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in the

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neighborhood of

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. It was built from 1901 to 1903, and was designed by

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in the

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for the Women's Hotel Company."Martha Washington Hotel Designation Report"

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(June 19, 2012) It was originally a women's-only hotel.

History

The hotel was designed by architect

, and opened on March 2, 1903, as the first hotel in the city exclusively for women, serving both transient guests and permanent residents. It originally had 416 rooms and was almost immediately fully occupied, with over 200 names on a waiting list. On June 19, 2012, it was designated a historical landmark by the

. The original name of the hotel was the "Women's Hotel", and subsequent names (after "Martha Washington Hotel") include "Hotel Thirty Thirty" (2003), "Hotel Lola" (2011) and "King & Grove New York" (2012). On May 21, 2014, King & Grove Hotels announced it was re-branding all of their hotels under the name "Chelsea Hotels", and that King & Grove New York would be re-launched as the "Martha Washington Hotel" in August 2014. As part of the project, the lobby level of the hotel was completely redesigned in a modern fashion, and includes a new restaurant, "Marta", run by

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's Union Square Hospitality Group. The restored hotel has over 6,000 square feet of function space. The hotel was sold to CIM in 2015 for $158 million. They renamed the hotel "The Redbury New York Hotel" in early 2016. It was also inducted int
Historic Hotels of America
the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, that same year.

Notable residents

Poet

Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914. In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for he ...

stayed at the hotel during her New York visits from early 1913 onwards. Even after her marriage to Ernst Filsinger in December 1914, Teasdale often chose to stay at the Hotel.Drake, W.D., ''Sara Teasdale: Woman and Poet'' 1979 Actress

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lived there after being evicted from the

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, and editor Louise E. Dew was a resident as well. The hotel has a connection with actress

Veronica Lake Constance Frances Marie Ockelman (November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973), known professionally as Veronica Lake, was an American film, stage, and television actress. Lake was best known for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd ...

. One of Hollywood's most bankable actresses of the 1940s, Lake was by 1952 unable to continue working as an actress because of her difficult reputation; Raymond Chandler referred to her as "Moronica Lake." After divorcing her husband, she drifted between cheap hotels in Brooklyn and New York City and was arrested several times for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. A reporter found her working as a barmaid at the all-women's Martha Washington Hotel in Manhattan. At first, Lake claimed that she was a guest at the hotel and covering for a friend. Soon afterward, she admitted that she was employed at the bar. The reporter's widely distributed story led to some television and stage appearances. The hotel served as the headquarters of the Interurban Women's Suffrage Council from 1907.

In popular culture

*The hotel is featured in the movie '' Valley of the Dolls''; Anne Welles stayed there after arriving in New York for the first time. *The first-floor ballroom on the 29th Street side of the hotel, at 29 East 29th Street, was the third location of the

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nightclub, from 1989 to 1992. * The protagonist of

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's novel '' Daddy-Long-Legs'' stays at the Martha Washington while on a visit to New York.

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Picture of an old advertising sign for the hotel
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Notable residents

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