List of Hotels
| City | Built | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | 1907 | Hotel Statler Hotel Buffalo |
The original Hotel Statler, at Swan and Washington Streets in Buffalo, was opened in 1907. Although Statler continued to operate it, it was renamed Hotel Buffalo in 1923 upon completion of the new Hotel Statler at Niagara Square. It was sold in the 1930s by the Statler Hotels Company. It closed in 1967 and was finally demolished in 1968. The site remained vacant until Coca-Cola Field was built there in 1988. |
| Cleveland | 1912 | The Statler Arms | The Statler in Cleveland was initially converted into an office building in 1980 as the Statler Office Building. In 2001 the building was converted into a 295-unit apartment building, known as The Statler Arms. |
| Detroit | 1915 | Detroit Statler Hotel | Hilton terminated its management of the Detroit Statler Hilton in 1974. It briefly became the Detroit Heritage Hotel, before closing soon after. Demolition of the 1000-room Detroit Statler Hotel in Detroit began in August 2005 and was completed before the Detroit-hosted Super Bowl in 2006. |
| Saint Louis | 1917 | Hotel Statler (St. Louis, Missouri) | The St. Louis Statler was sold by Hilton in 1968 and renamed The Gateway Hotel. It was closed in 1987, and it underwent a mysterious and oft-litigated arson fire the following year. It was expanded, renovated and reopened in 2004 as the St. Louis Renaissance Grand Hotel, operated by the Marriott Corporation. |
| New York City | 1919 | Hotel Pennsylvania |
The Hotel Pennsylvania, across the street from Penn Station, was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1919 and managed by Ellsworth Statler's company. The hotel has had the distinction of having the oldest continuous phone number in New York still in use today. The number, Pennsylvania 6-5000, is the inspiration for the Glenn Miller song of the same name. Many big band names played in the hotel's Cafe Rouge including the Dorsey Brothers, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The hotel was acquired by the Hotels Statler Company in 1948 and renamed the New York Statler Hotel, operated as The Statler Hilton, then as the New York Penta, until it reverted to the Hotel Pennsylvania. The hotel is currently owned by Vornado Realty Trust, which announced plans to demolish it in 2007 and replace it with a towering office building. Final approval by the city was granted in 2010, but as of 2011 the hotel remains open for business. |
| Buffalo | 1923 | Hotel Statler Buffalo Statler Hilton Buffalo Statler Towers Statler City |
The second Buffalo Statler was gradually converted to offices starting in 1948 (when WBEN-TV began using the building as their first studios) because it had more hotel rooms than the city could support. In 1984 the last hotel rooms were closed and the building was renamed Statler Towers, although its ballrooms remained in use for catered events and banquets. After a failed renovation attempt into a combination of hotel and condos in the late 2000s, the building went into bankruptcy, and was auctioned in August 2010. On March 15, 2011, the property was acquired by developer Mark D. Croce, who is currently refurbishing the building as Statler City. The public rooms on the lower floors reopened on Dec 31, 2011 with the upper floors set to reopen later. |
| Boston | 1927 | The Boston Statler is still a hotel, now called the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, owned and operated by Starwood Hotels as an independent property. | |
| Washington | 1943 | The only hotel bought by and still operated by Hilton Hotels is the Washington, D.C. Statler, now called The Capital Hilton. | |
| Los Angeles | 1952 | The Los Angeles Statler operated for many years as the Statler Hilton, then the Omni Los Angeles, and lastly as The Wilshire Grand Hotel (1999). Korean Airlines purchased the hotel in 1989. The hotel closed its doors for good on January 19, 2011. Plans call for the hotel to be demolished and replaced with a 45-story hotel and a 65-story office tower known as the Wilshire Grand Tower I. | |
| Hartford | 1954 | The Hartford Statler, later known as the Parkview Hilton, was closed and demolished in 1990. The site is now a parking lot. | |
| Dallas | 1956 | Dallas Statler Hilton | The Dallas Statler Hilton was closed in 2001, having operated in its last years as the Dallas Grand Hotel. It is currently vacant. In May 2008, The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the building on their list of America's Most Endangered Places. |
| Ithaca | 1986 | The Statler Hotel On Cornell University's Campus was built in 1986, long after Ellsworth M Statler had passed. Provisions from Statler's will allowed this unique hotel to be operated by The Cornell School of Hotel Administration. |
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