Blackstone Hotel
- Also Known As: Blackstone Centre
- Address: 302 S 36th St
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1915/05/00 | Bankers Realty Investment Company | Developer | Bankers Reality Investment Company, a commercial and residential real estate developer, breaks ground for the Blackstone Family Hotel on a lot bought last March at 36th and Leavenworth from the Kountze Estate. They financed the project for $300,000. | |||
1916/02/01 | Francis W Fitzpatrick | Architect | The Blackstone is completed for the Bankers Realty Investment Co as a residential hotel. Rents are $42.50 and up for the year rather than the day and receive hotel services. Although there are single room units, most are suites with 6 to 8 rooms. | |||
1920/12/00 | Charles Schimmel | Owner | Charles Schimmel buys the Blackstone for $800,000. | |||
1921/00/00 | Reuben Kulakofsky, a Jewish Lithuanian-born co-owner of a wholesale grocery, the Central Market, begins playing Sunday night poker games with hotel owner, Charles Schimmel, at Schimmel's Blackstone Hotel. | |||||
1926/00/00 | Schimmel Bernard, son of Charles Schimmel, begins two years of studies at the Ecole Hoteliere in Lausanne, Switzerland. | |||||
1928/00/00 | Charles Schimmel asks his son Bernard to create something good with corned beef and sauerkraut, saying Reuben wants a sandwich with sauerkraut. Bernard makes a sandwich of corned beef, sauerkraut, Emmental cheese and Russian dressing on grilled pimpernel. | Reuben Sandwich | ||||
1929/00/00 | The Reuben sandwich is added to the Blackstone coffee shop menu. Eventually the Reuben will be included on the menus of all four of the Schimmel hotels. | Reuben Sandwich | ||||
1930/00/00 | In the late 1920s, the Orleans Room restaurant at Blackstone Hotel's serves Butter Brickle ice cream made by mixing in Fenn's Butter Brickle Candy Ice Cream Flavoring. | |||||
1935/00/00 | The recently opened Plush Horse restaurant in the Blackstone Hotel offers a "Rueben" sandwich for 50 cents. | Reuben Sandwich | ||||
1945/00/00 | The Plush Horse at the Blackstone Hotel offers a "Rueben" sandwich for 60 cents. All prices are our ceiling prices or below. By OPA regulation, our ceilings are based on our highest prices from April 4 to 10, 1943. | Reuben Sandwich | ||||
1956/00/00 | Fern Snider, a former waitress at the Blackstone Hotel, wins the National Restaurant Association's Sandwich of the Year award with her Reuben. The recipe is published in the association's magazine where it gains popularity in American restaurants. | Reuben Sandwich | ||||
1975/00/00 | "Joslyn Presents Bernard Schimmel's Masterpieces" a cookbook by Bernard Schimmel is published. |
Particulars for Blackstone Hotel: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Area of Significance | Commerce |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Historic Use | Hotel |
Architectural Style | Late 19th and 20th century revivals |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Restaurant |
Architectural Style | Second Renaissance Revival |
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