Delmonico's
The original Delmonico's opened in 1827 on William Street and since then there has been a parade of restaurants sharing that name at this location. This building was designed by the prominent architect James Brown Lord, in a striking Renaissance Revival style and built in 1890-91.
Delmonico's was a character in it's own right in Caleb Carr's novel The Alienist, one of the best invocations of old New York I have ever read.
Among their notable patron list were the stars of the Gilded Age: Jenny Lind, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Arthur Sullivan, "Diamond Jim" Brady, Lillian Russell, usually in the company of Diamond Jim, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, J.P. Morgan, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Nikola Tesla, Edward VII, then-Prince of Wales, and Napoleon III of France.
Delmonico's
The original Delmonico's opened in 1827 on William Street and since then there has been a parade of restaurants sharing that name at this location. This building was designed by the prominent architect James Brown Lord, in a striking Renaissance Revival style and built in 1890-91.
Delmonico's was a character in it's own right in Caleb Carr's novel The Alienist, one of the best invocations of old New York I have ever read.
Among their notable patron list were the stars of the Gilded Age: Jenny Lind, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Arthur Sullivan, "Diamond Jim" Brady, Lillian Russell, usually in the company of Diamond Jim, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, J.P. Morgan, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Nikola Tesla, Edward VII, then-Prince of Wales, and Napoleon III of France.