29-469: Amen Corner may refer to: Places [ edit ] Amen Corner (niche) , Fifth Avenue Hotel (1859-1908), New York City Amen Corner, London , street in the centre of London, England, near St Paul's Cathedral Amen Corner, area and road junction in Tooting , South London between Mitcham Road, Rectory Lane, and Southcroft Road Amen Corner, Berkshire ,
58-616: A few years in the 1890s; here he held his "Sunday School", where projects did not go forward until they had his "amen". The Fifth Avenue Hotel closed at midnight on April 4, 1908 and was demolished. It was reported that patrons of the hotel's bar spent $ 7,000 in drinks during its last day of operation. Its site was occupied in 1909 by an office building known as the Fifth Avenue Building (later changed to Toy Center ), designed by Robert Maynicke and Julius Franke, for Eno's grandson, Henry Lane Eno . Until 2007 it housed
87-552: A quarter of a million dollars a year in profits. The Fifth Avenue Hotel spurred development of additional hotels to the north and west, to the north of the Madison Square Park , an area known in the 21st century as the NoMad neighborhood. The Fifth Avenue Hotel was constructed of brick and white marble, and stood at five stories over a commercial ground floor. The first example of Otis Tufts ' "vertical screw railway,"
116-763: A suburb of Bracknell, Berkshire, England Amen Corner, a thoroughfare in Caunton , near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England Amen Corner, a thoroughfare in central Rotherham , South Yorkshire, England Amen Corner, on which St Nicholas' Cathedral , Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is situated Amen Corner, a crossroads in Gussage All Saints , Dorset, England Arts and media [ edit ] Amen Corner (band) , 1960s British pop group Amen Corner (musical) , 1983 musical Amen Corner (novel) , novel by Rick Shefchik The Amen Corner , 1954 play by James Baldwin "The Amen Corner", song from
145-703: The Upper West Side . After settling his son's debts, Amos retreated to the family summer residence in Simsbury, the Amos Eno House (1820, on the National Register of Historic Places ) which had been erected by Eno's father-in-law, Elisha Phelps . Every summer the Eno family would visit the house, which was enlarged by Eno and by his daughter Antoinette Eno Wood. He was a founding benefactor of
174-528: The 1998 album My Arms, Your Hearse by Swedish progressive metal group Opeth Amen Corner , a 2008 album by Railroad Earth Other uses [ edit ] Amen Corner (golf) , nickname of the 11th, 12th, and 13th water holes at Augusta National Golf Club See also [ edit ] " Trouble in the Amen Corner ", a poem and song Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
203-552: The Ancient Greeks and Romans". The Fifth Avenue Hotel was built in 1856–59 by Amos Richards Eno at the cost of $ 2 million. The building was designed by Griffith Thomas with William Washburn . Due to the site's location away from the city center, the hotel was labelled as "Eno's Folly" during construction, due to its location away from the city centre. Following the hotel's opening, it became "the social, cultural political hub of elite New York," and brought in
232-627: The Civil War veterans of the McClellan Legion – an organization of veterans, formed for the 1864 campaign, charged with getting out the vote of soldiers who had been discharged or were on sick leave or furlough – marched past in review from dusk until almost midnight. President Ulysses S. Grant 's 1867 presidential campaign began at a dinner party in the hotel, and he and his cabinet once held an official session there. On September 20, 1873, Grant came to New York in response to
261-657: The Fifth Avenue Hotel a setting in his novel 1876 , for it was in a suite here that John C. Reid, editor of The New York Times woke the Republican National Committee chairman Zachariah Chandler , and worked out the campaign for the controversial presidential election of 1876 . On May 21, 1881, the United States Tennis Association was founded in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. In 1886, retired General of
290-842: The Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City and much valuable real estate in New York City where he established a prominent family fortune. Having clerked in a small general store in Hartford, Connecticut , he married Lucy Phelps, also of Simsbury, and moved to New York, where he and his cousin John Jay Phelps opened a profitable dry goods business. While making a fortune in the dry goods business, Amos Eno parlayed his profits into real estate investment in Manhattan, New York, buying corner lots and occasionally full undeveloped city blocks. His brownstone -fronted store at 74 Broadway had
319-421: The Fifth Avenue Hotel to codify the first set of college football rules. Before this meeting, each school had its own set of rules and games were usually played using the home team's own particular code. At this meeting, a list of rules, based more on The Football Association 's rules than the rules of the recently founded Rugby Football Union , was drawn up for intercollegiate football games. Gore Vidal made
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#1732800976928348-745: The International Toy Center, which was filled with wholesale buyers come the February Toy Fair and then again in October. The old hotel's name was taken up by a Fifth Avenue Hotel at 24 Fifth Avenue, designed by Emery Roth , later converted to apartments. A plaque on the Toy Center , the building currently on the site, commemorates the hotel. Informational notes Citations Bibliography Amos Eno Amos Richards Eno (November 1, 1810 – February 21, 1898)
377-472: The North's largest Democratic stronghold. The day that he arrived, the street in front of the hotel was crammed with cheering and shouting people hoping for a sight of him, while a band played and a local militiaman set off a small piece of field artillery at intervals. The crowd reacted with even more enthusiasm when McClellan made an appearance on a hotel balcony. Two years later, shortly before Election Day, as
406-692: The Simsbury Free Library, among other local philanthropic gestures. Eno's portrait by Eastman Johnson , commissioned by his family in 1899, was a posthumous one, based on photographs; it is conserved in the New York State Museum . Amos Richards Eno – on January 14, 1835, in Simsbury, Connecticut – married Lucy Jane Phelps (maiden; 1818–1882), daughter of Elisha Phelps (1779–1847). Their children included: Amos R. Eno died February 21, 1898. At time of his death his wealth
435-634: The United States Army William Tecumseh Sherman resided at the Fifth Avenue Hotel upon his move from St. Louis, Missouri to New York City; he stayed until he had purchased a house in the city. The Fifth Avenue Hotel was known as a stronghold of the Republican Party . From a corner nook in one of the public rooms, which he dubbed his " Amen Corner ", Republican political boss Thomas Collier Platt controlled patronage in New York City and state for
464-474: The bank, embezzled millions of dollars and then fled to Canada to avoid prosecution. Eno never closed the bank, though three to four million dollars were withdrawn in panic, and made good his son's embezzlement, "though he never recovered from the shock". He held the greater part of a full block facing Broadway in Longacre Square (now Times Square) . His last real estate speculations were in open lots in
493-736: The city, and the center of social life for elite New Yorkers. During the Civil War , Major General George B. McClellan moved into the hotel shortly after he was relieved from command of the Army of the Potomac in November 1862, after his failure to crush Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Antietam . Nevertheless, McClellan, a Democrat, was received as a hero in New York,
522-704: The first passenger elevator installed in a hotel in the United States, a notable but cumbersome feature powered by a stationary steam engine carried passengers to the upper floors by a revolving screw that passed through the center of the passenger cab. The building was of a plain Italianate palazzo-front design, with a projecting tin cornice , but its sober exterior contained richly appointed public rooms: Harper's Weekly reviewed its "heavy masses of gilt wood, rich crimson or green curtains, extremely handsome rose-wood and brocatelle suits, rich carpets...
551-557: The hotel for the winter. The celebrity lawyer Chester A. Arthur – who later became President of the United States – kept a suite for his office; Edward, Prince of Wales , stayed here on his North American tour, as did his brother-in-law the Duke of Argyll , Dom Pedro of Brazil and Prince Agustín de Iturbide y Green of Mexico, Maximilian's adopted son. The celebrated New York City physician, Dr. John Franklin Gray , lived at
580-589: The hotel. The hotel was also "...a gathering place for fat cats like Boss Tweed , Jay Gould , Jim Fisk and Commodore Vanderbilt , who would trade stocks here after hours." When the superbly confident young Fisk – soon to be known as "Diamond Jim", one of the Gilded Age 's premier robber barons – first arrived in New York, he stayed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel until he was temporarily ruined. On October 20, 1873, representatives from Yale , Columbia , Princeton , and Rutgers Universities met at
609-488: The presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, McClellan reviewed a massive 2 1/2 hour long torchlight parade of his supporters from a balcony of the hotel. It was one of only two personal appearances he made during the entire election campaign, which he lost to Abraham Lincoln . McClellan once again received the approbation of a crowd of supporters from a Fifth Avenue Hotel balcony on September 29, 1868, when
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#1732800976928638-670: The reputation of having been the first use of brownstone in the city. Retiring from active participation as a merchant, he concentrated in 1856–59 in building the famous Fifth Avenue Hotel at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street in Madison Square , Manhattan, and the adjacent Madison Square Theatre in 1863. North of Madison Square , Eno built a brick four-storey house at 233 Fifth Avenue , between 26th and 27th Streets, that served as his residence for many years. In April 1890, Eno sold it to The Reform Club for $ 240,000 (equivalent to $ 8,138,667 in 2023). Anson Phelps Stokes
667-510: The start of the financial Panic of 1873 , and held a serious of meetings at the hotel the next day with financiers, brokers, bankers and railroad executive, all wanting Grant to take steps to stabilize the economy, but Grant lacked the tools which later presidents would have to deal with the economy, as there was no central bank, no Federal Reserve system, to take necessary measures. After the presidential campaign of 1880, in which Grant campaigned for James Garfield , he and his wife Julia moved into
696-400: The time) and ran advertisements featuring a fireplace in every room. Some critics argued that the success of the hotel is a sign that elite New Yorkers were rejecting the republican values of their forefathers, and had begun to value grandeur, luxury and comfort instead. The hotel was host to numerous notable guests, both foreign and domestic, and was, for a time, the most exclusive hotel in
725-484: The title Amen Corner . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amen_Corner&oldid=1074555084 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Amen Corner (niche) The Fifth Avenue Hotel
754-454: The whole presenting about as handsome and as comfortless an appearance as any one need wish for." A correspondent for The Times of London, in New York to cover the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860, called the hotel "a larger and more handsome building than Buckingham Palace ." The hotel employed 400 servants to serve its guests, offered private bathrooms (an unprecedented amenity at
783-589: Was a luxury hotel located in Manhattan , New York City from 1859 to 1908. It had an entire block of frontage between 23rd Street and 24th Street , at the southwest corner of Madison Square . The site was previously the location of Madison Cottage, which was a stagecoach stop for passengers headed north from the city. From 1853 to 1856 it was the site of Franconi's Hippodrome, a tent-like structure of canvas and wood which could accommodate up to 10,000 spectators who watched chariot races and other "Amusements of
812-520: Was an American real estate investor and capitalist in New York City. He built the Fifth Avenue Hotel and many other developments on the streets of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, where he established a prominent family fortune of 20 to 40 million U.S. dollars. Amos Richards Eno was born November 1, 1810, in Simsbury, Connecticut . Amos R. Eno began his career as a merchant of dry goods who expanded into real estate in New York City having built
841-613: Was in 1888 its founding president. Before moving into Eno's mansion, the club had been located at 12 East 33rd Street. The structure at 233 Fifth Avenue, still much in its original form, currently is the home of the Museum of Sex . Eno and relatives, in April 1882, chartered the Second National Bank of New York, headquartered in the hotel. In 1884 scandal hit the family bank when one of Amos' sons, John Chester Eno, president of
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