Dauphin Hotel - Hotel Chronology

Hotel Chronology

C.D. Halsey & Company moved its offices from the Hotel Dauphin to the Sherman Square Hotel, Broadway and 70th Street, in November 1929.

In May 1946 the Dauphin Hotel was designated as a depot in an Emergency Food Collection Drive coordinated by the American Women's Voluntary Services. It was one of five collection repositories in Manhattan. Mayor of New York City William O'Dwyer requested residents of the city to not eat bread, pies, cakes, and pastries at evening meals on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On these three nights meals would be dedicated to "Freedom From Famine", to end hunger abroad.

New York Supreme Court Justice Kenneth O'Brien voided a 15% increase given the hotel in a case involving forty tenants, in May 1948.

Donald Davis, son of playwright Owen Davis, resided at the Dauphin Hotel in May 1949. He worked for the American Broadcasting Company.

The American Irish Minutemen of 1949 maintained their headquarters at the hotel. Numbering 1,000 members, the group organized pickets outside the Empire State Building on May 31, 1949. They protested a recent vote of the British House of Commons to permit the parliament of Northern Ireland to vote on the status of the six counties in the country. They encouraged a plebiscite conducted by the United Nations instead.

Gilbert Gabriel, drama critic for Cue magazine and president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, resided at the hotel until his death in September 1952. While away from New York City he had lived with his wife, painter and lithographer Ada Vorhaus, since 1931.

Mrs. Henry B. Harris, a survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster, resided at the Dauphin Hotel in 1958. Her husband was lost with the ship. She was one of eight survivors of the ship's sinking who lived in New York at the time. A Night To Remember was shown especially for Harris and twenty others in a lounge off the main lobby of the hotel in October 1958. The English made motion picture was not released in theaters until December.

A showing of paintings by Elsig Springer was held at the Dauphin Hotel in June 1960.