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William Astor's construction of a hotel next to his aunt's house worsened his feud with her, but, with Boldt's assistance, John Astor persuaded his mother to move uptown. The Waldorf Hotel, named after the Astor family's ancestral hometown of Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, was opened for business March 13, 1893.
Its first general manager, George C. Boldt, set new standards of hospitality in America. It started as two hotels: one owned by William Waldorf Astor, whose 13-story Waldorf Hotel was opened in 1893 and the other owned by his cousin, John Jacob Astor IV, called the Astoria Hotel and opened four years later and four stories higher.
Oct 15, 2014 · The original Waldorf Astoria (far left) in 1899 (Photo: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) William Waldorf Astor had decided to demolish his great mansion at the corner of Fifth Avenue and ...
Jan 16, 2019 · It was Boldt who transformed the image of an hotel from being a place where tourists merely slept to being a social magnet. In 1904, he also opened the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia that followed the lines of the Waldorf-Astoria. In 1880, he married his beloved wife "my beautiful princess" for whom he built the equally iconic Boldt Castle.
Sep 19, 2014 · In a career of over half a century, he directed such celebrated hotels as the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia, the Taft in New Haven, the Lenox in Boston, and the McAlpin, Claridge, Sherry-Netherland and the original as well as the current Waldorf-Astoria in New York. 2) George C. Boldt who was the genius of the original Waldorf-Astoria.
May 14, 2021 · There was George C. Boldt, a mild-mannered manager with a “refined, continental” sensibility, whose wife Louise admonished him to always consider “the woman’s point of view.” Then, during a luncheon at Delmonico’s, an agent for the Waldorf estate noticed Oscar Tschirky, an attentive, savvy Swiss-born waiter.
Meanwhile, he turned a favor for William Waldorf Astor, and won his gratitude. When Astor decided to abandon his residence at Fifth Ave. and Thirty-fourth St. , New York, Boldt was instrumental in persuading him to build on the site the Waldorf Hotel, then the most magnificent in the world, of which he was named manager.
