Hotel Belleclaire is currently an Art and architecture good article nominee. Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 22:35, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
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A fact from Hotel Belleclaire appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 May 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that after a guest smuggled a lion into the Hotel Belleclaire using a piano crate, the lion was thrown out of the hotel?
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... that after a guest smuggled a lion into the Hotel Belleclaire using a piano crate, the lion was thrown out of the hotel? Source: "Has No Room for a Lion.: New York Hotel Dispossesses Animal That Arrived in Plano Box". The Washington Post. May 25, 1920. p. 6.
ALT1: ... that Maxim Gorky was forced to leave the Hotel Belleclaire because he was staying with a woman who was not his wife? Source: "Gorky Twice Evicted From Gotham Hotels: Belleclaire and Lafayette-Brevoort Eject Him and His Actress Companion". St. Louis Post - Dispatch. April 15, 1906. p. A1.
ALT2: ... that after the Hotel Belleclaire's management found that Maxim Gorky was staying there with a woman who was not his wife, Gorky was thrown out? Source: "Gorky Twice Evicted From Gotham Hotels: Belleclaire and Lafayette-Brevoort Eject Him and His Actress Companion". St. Louis Post - Dispatch. April 15, 1906. p. A1.
ALT3: ... that the sons of the Hotel Belleclaire's architect considered the hotel's design to be full of "junk and gunk"? Source: "The Skyline Factory". Newsweek. Vol. 70, no. 12. September 18, 1967. p. 98.
Who got the lease in 1908? First it says "Saxe leased the building to Frank A. Archambault in August 1908 for 21 years at $65,000 a year," then the next paragraph starts with "Albert R. Keen sold the hotel's lease in November 1910 to California hotelier Elmer F. Woodbury for $150,000, with 19 years remaining on the lease." Was it Archambault or Keen? Drmab (talk) 23:47, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]