Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
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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.
The elderly gentleman was William Waldorf Astor and he wanted the young clerk to manage his new hotel. George C. Boldt took the challenge up and the rest, as they say, is history. Some call it the origin of the Waldorf principle of selfless service, others an urban legend.
The site of the Old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was then occupied by the John Jacob Astor and William Astor houses (photo from Valentine's Manual). The Waldorf-Astoria on Park Avenue. George Charles Boldt / Georg Karl Boldt (1851-1916) was born in Bergen auf Rügen, Prussia, on April 25, 1851 and immigrated to the United States in 1864.
18 hours ago · The iconic Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City was the result of a family feud between John III and William Jr.'s descendants. ... John III's son, William Waldorf Astor, built the 13-story ...
Two separate hotels stood on the site, the Waldorf and the Astoria, constructed in the 1890s for William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV. These two cousins, nursing a feud, built on the sites of their parents' mansions, including that of "The" Mrs. Astor.
William Waldorf Astor. William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor [1] (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, businessman (hotels and newspapers), and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York City. He moved to England in 1891, became a British subject in 1899, and ...
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Nov 8, 2023 · The Arch Rivals: William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV In the upper echelons of New York’s Gilded Age society, the title of “The Mrs. Astor” was more than a mere formality; it was a ...
