"Work on the original Plaza Hotel began in 1883 using plans drawn up by architect George W. DeCunha. The builders ran out of money prior to completion. In 1888, foreclosed and brought in to redesign the interior. The eight story, 400 room Plaza opened in the fall of 1890 ... The demise of the "old" Plaza was decreed at the one afternoon over lunch. ... The old hotel had too few rooms to generate sufficient cash flow. ... New York architect, , was retained to design the "new" Plaza Hotel. He opted for the new steel skeleton technology that had been used earlier by , the hotel's co-owner, when he built the . The eighteen-story brick and marble French Renaissance-style Plaza Hotel cost over $12.5 million. The hotel had eight hundred rooms and five hundred baths when it opened in the fall of 1907. It had centrally controlled electric clocks and telephones in every room. The public area had crystal chandeliers, marble fireplaces and staircases, and no end of elegant appointments."
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