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The Algonquin is the home of the famous Round Table.
The Algonquin is the oldest operating hotel in NYC and the first to have electronic key locks.
Charleston oilman Ben Bodne bought the hotel as a gift for his wife.
William Faulkner wrote his 1950 Nobel Prize speech in his Algonquin Suite.
The Algonquin was the first leading New York hotel to welcome ladies traveling alone.
The Algonquin Oak Room launched the careers of Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Feinstein, Jane Monheit, Peter Cincotti and Jamie Cullum and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe wrote My Fair Lady in Lerner's suite at the Algonquin.
The Algonquin is the host of the annual Thurber Prize for best book of American humor.
Our most frequent overseas visitors are from the UK, among them Gertrude Lawrence, Noel Coward (whose suite was dedicated in 2005), Laurence Olivier, Jeremy Irons, Graham Greene, Tom Stoppard, Charles Laughton, Diana Rigg and Anthony Hopkins.
Harold Ross secured funding for the New Yorker from a fellow poker player in the hotel's "Thanatopsis Pleasures and Inside Straight Club."
Among teenagers who made the hotel their first home were Alabama's Tallulah Bankhead and England's Angela Lansbury.
Algonquin honeymooners include Douglas Fairbanks and Orson Welles.
Contrary to myth, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and their fellow wits never drank at the Round Table because of Prohibition.
The Algonquin Round Table was the subject of The Ten-Year Lunch, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 1987.
Famous female visitors to the hotel range from Salvation Army Commander Evangeline Booth to Gertrude Stein to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The Algonquin is the home of the $10,000 martini. It comes with a single piece of ice - a diamond from the in-house jeweler, Bader & Garrin. |
