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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1902/00/00 GW and WD Hewitt Architect Construction begins on the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel for George Boldt, who owned the building outright, to replace the old Bellevue Stratford hotels.
1902/00/00 George Charles Boldt Sr Owner Construction begins on the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel for George Boldt, who owned the building outright, to replace the old Bellevue Stratford hotels.
1904/00/00 Thomas Edison Engineer 1,090 room Bellevue-Stratford Hotel opens featuring a ballroom, a marble and hand-worked iron elliptical staircase, delicate lighting fixtures designed by Thomas Edison and stained glass transoms, Venetian windows and sky-lights by Alfred Godwin.
1909/03/19 Edith Wilson Life As Edith Galt and her party leave the dining room one evening, the hotel manager says they can look in the ballroom for a few minutes and see the president of Princeton University addressing the alumni. "That was my first glimpse of Woodrow Wilson." - EBW Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson
1912/00/00 Hewitt and Paist Architect At a cost of $850,000, 16 stories are built on the 3 story western end of the Bellevue-Stratford, 1911-1912.
1919/06/00 Thomas Coleman du Pont Owner T Coleman du Pont and Lucius M Boomer, president of Boomer-du Pont Properties Corp lease the Bellvue. The ground and building are retained by George C Boldt Jr. Boomer-du Pont offer $7,500,000 to buy the hotel, but Boldt wants $10,000,000.
1925/01/06 Leon Moisseiff Guest Leon Moisseiff and his bridge collaborators sing from the "Third Annual Staff Dinner Song Book" at the Delaware River Bridge Third Annual Staff Dinner in the Rose Garden of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia.
1925/01/06 Montgomery Case Guest Paul P Cret and his colleges, Montgomery Case, Clement Chase Allston Dana and Leon Moisseiff sit at Table 16 during the Delaware River Bridge Third Annual Staff Dinner in the Rose Garden of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia.
1925/01/06 Paul Philippe Cret Guest Paul P Cret attends the Delaware River Bridge Third Annual Staff Dinner in the Rose Garden of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia.
1925/12/00 Thomas Coleman du Pont Owner Backed by duPont, The Bellevue Company buys the Bellevue Hotel for $6,500,000 from the heirs of George C Boldt. About $3,000,000 is paid in cash and a $3,500,000 mortgage is assumed by Bellevue.
1936/00/00 1936 Democratic National Convention
1940/00/00 Republican national convention
1943/00/00 United Nations conference
1945/00/00 Pan America and World organization meeting
1963/10/30 John F Kennedy Dignitary President John F Kennedy rides in a 13-mile open car motorcade from the Philadelphia International Airport to the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.
1976/07/00 At an American Legion convention, a pneumonia-like disease kills 29 people and sickens 182. Department of Health identifies the hotel's air conditioning system as the source of outbreak and orders the hotel to be closed.
1979/00/00 The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel reopens as the Fairmont.

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Particulars for Bellevue Stratford Hotel:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Commerce
Architectural Style French Renaissance Revival
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Hotel
Owner Private
Architectural Style Renaissance Revival



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 77001182
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Hewitt and Paist; Hewitt,G.W. and Hewitt,W.D.
Architectural Style: Renaissance, Other
Attribute: French Renaissance
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Commerce, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Significant Year: 1903, 1904, 1910
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Hotel
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Hotel

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