The Martha Washington Hotel was the name of the hotel at 30 East 30th Street between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built from 1901 to 1903, and was designed by Robert W. Gibson in the Renaissance Revival style for the Women's Hotel Company.
The hotel opened on March 2, 1903 as the first hotel exclusively for women, and serving both transient guests and permanent residents. It was almost immediately fuly occupied, with over 200 names on a waiting list. It originally had 416 rooms. On June 19, 2012 it was designated a historical landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The original name of the hotel was the Women's Hotel, and subsequent names after "Martha Washington" include Hotel Thirty Thirty (2003), Hotel Lola (2011) and King & Grove New York (2012).
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