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Subject: Developers Buy Famed Algonquin Hotel
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:23:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
To: Nabokov <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
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As you know, Edmund Wilson went there sometimes as well, and one of the
founding members was Harold Ross, the founder and first editor of The New
Yorker. Wilson described his first visit there in 1920 in THE TWENTIES:
"Benchley and Dorothy joked about my being a 'scab' [young Wilson was
reading mss at the VANITY FAIR at the time, after Parker and Benchley
resigned in protest over the magazine's removal of Parker as a theater
critic], but were kind about showing me the ropes and took me for the
first time to the Algonquin."
Galya Diment
June 26, 2002
Developers Buy Famed Algonquin Hotel
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:27 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Algonquin Hotel, which in its heyday drew some of the
country's brightest literary lights to its famed Round Table, was sold to
a Denver partnership for an undisclosed sum.
The 165-room hotel was bought by Miller Global Properties Fund IV, which
will renovate the 100-year-old building.
The Algonquin sits on a busy Midtown Manhattan block that has kept an
older New York feel.
In the 1920s and '30s, Dorothy Parker and pals like Robert Benchley,
Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman gathered nightly at the hotel to
trade gibes and jokes, many of which ended up in print.
A replica of the dark-wood Round Table used by the clever-than-thou group
has become the hotel lobby's centerpiece.
Olympus Real Estate Corp. of Dallas bought the hotel for $32.6 million in
1997.