Royal Palm Hotel

03 / The story of this place

What was here?

Louis Kamper designed the 13-story Royal Palm for Lew Tuller in 1924, the southernmost of Tuller's three Park Avenue hotels alongside the Eddystone and the Park Avenue. It opened in 1925 with 180 rooms behind an orange-brick front with Italian Renaissance stonework, little balconets and a cornice lined with stone lion heads. Tuller lost it to foreclosure in 1928, and financier David P. Katz held it until a $2 million fraud against him sank his business in 1966. Wilbur Harrington bought it in 1967 and renamed it the Park Avenue House. Unlike its two sisters, it never went dark: people have lived here without a break since it opened.

• Designed by Louis Kamper, opened 1925
• 180 rooms on 13 floors
• Lived in without a break since 1925

Former names

Royal Palm Hotel (1925–1967) · Park Avenue House (from 1967)

Architect

Louis Kamper

What’s there now?

The Park Avenue House apartments; “Royal Palm” is still carved over the entrance.