The St. Regis New York is a luxury hotel located in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. When the property opened in 1904, it was the tallest in the city.
The hotel was originally developed by John Jacob Astor IV and was completed in 1904 to designs by Trowbridge & Livingston with interiors by Arnold Constable. An annex to the east was designed by Sloan & Robertson and completed in 1927. It is a New York City designated landmark.
The 18-story hotel was designed in the Beaux-Arts style. The facade of the original hotel is made of limestone and is divided into three horizontal sections. The St. Regis required a large amount of mechanical equipment, which was placed on three basement levels. When the St. Regis opened, the interior was extensively decorated in marble and bronze. The first floor contained a restaurant, café, palm court and hotel office, while the second floor contained a banquet hall, ballroom, and private dining room.
Astor began constructing the hotel in 1901 and named it after Upper St. Regis Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Rudolph Haan operated the hotel from its opening until 1926. Astor's son Vincent Astor sold the St. Regis in 1927 to Benjamin Newton Duke. After an acrimonious dispute in 1934, Vincent Astor re-acquired the hotel the next year and continued to own it until his death in 1959. The hotel was sold several times in the early 1960s, before the St. Regis joined the Sheraton Hotels and Resorts chain in 1966. The St. Regis has been renovated several times over the years, and it became part of the Marriott chain in 2016. The Qatar Investment Authority bought the hotel building in 2019.