Savoy Plaza Corporation - New York 1925 - Famous New York Hotel

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Beautifully engraved Rare SPECIMEN First Mortgage Gold Bond certificate from the Savoy-Plaza Corporation dated 1925. This historic document was printed by the American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman sitting and looking at the grapes held in her hand. Minor splits on folds with tape repair on verso. This item is over 88 years old.
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The Savoy Plaza Hotel dominated the New York midtown gateway to Central Park for about two decades before these two skyscraper hotels were built, the Pierre and the Sherry-Netherland hotels, two blocks and two years apart, quickly became two of the most recognized profiles in the world until the incursion several decades later of the mammoth General Motors Building. The General Motors Building replaced the very elegant, formal, twin-chimneyed Savoy Plaza Hotel that had been designed by McKim, Mead & White directly across Fifth Avenue from the Plaza Hotel. The Savoy Plaza was, in fact, the best looking of this group of super luxury hotels though it was far shorter and bulkier than the Pierre and Sherry Netherland.
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