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46496title from spine: Catalogue des Tableaux de la Galerie de San Donato. 71 pp. auction catalogue offering 23 works by Dutch and Flemish masters including Cuyp Hobbema Metsu Ostade Rembrandt Rubens etc. with an introductory letter by Ernest Chesneau and item descriptions by Francis Petit illustrated on 23 plates engraved after the paintings by M. Braquemond. Small 4to. 1/2 leather marbled boards. Paris Imprimé chez A. Pillet 1868. hardcover books
104502 1/4" x 5 1/2". 4 panel folding brochure. 3 halftone illustrations; map. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. 700 rooms. Printed by Ames Hard Co. <br /><br />Includes rates $1.50 to $2.50 per day directions etc.<br /><br />Hotel Cecil is now at the center of the docu-series "Crime Scene" directed by Joe Berlinger. AMES HARD COMPANY books
188155480New York 1881. Approx. 11" x 8½" the engraving approx. 4" x 7¾"; previous folds and with a couple of very short splits; otherwise very good. The hotel stood across the street from the Grand Central Depot which is also pictured in the image. <br/><br/> unknown books
1936144619New York: Hotel Astor 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City dated Wednesday October 7 1936.<br/><br/>The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location and a widely-known bar for pickups the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups as well. The hotel was in operation from 1904 through 1967 featuring many well known musicians including Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra with big band leader Vincent Lopez and his orchestra advertised on this menu. <br/><br/>The menu dates from a year after the hotel's first renovation and features an extensive partially French inspired cuisine including a Philadelphia Pepper Pot broiled mackerel turkey wings and a tomato cheese and asparagus cold salad as the daily specials. The hotel's location is now occupied by a 54-story office tower. <br/><br/>Single fold three-color menu 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with light soil. Hotel Astor unknown books
19106753San Francisco: Putney Haight Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company 1910. Octavo 24 x 16 cm. 31 67-307 pages. Advertisements. Illustration of the Hotel on page 3. Portrait of the author in chef's whites and smoking cap on page 6. ~ FIRST EDITION stated subscription issue. One of the more important and influential early California professional cookbooks marking San Francisco's emergence as a world culinary center. Divided between a menu section Part 1 with two hundred menus and "Extraordinary and Secret Compositions in Culinary Art" Part 2 with more than two thousand recipes. A dose of hyperbole can be assumed regarding the claim to secrecy as at least some of the recipes had appeared in the author's column in The Evening Post whose collaboration is acknowledged on page 18. A sampling: Austrian Soup Bread Berliner Pfannkuchen English Crumpets Velvet Soup Cream of Chicory Soup Green Walnut Confit Bar le Duc Crème au Kirsch Coup St. Jacques Chiffonade Salad Salad Eugenie Okra and Sweet Peppers mistakenly printed twice Tripe à la mode Caen Baron of Lamb Squab Michels Quail Forestiere Fondue Savarin Pineapple Omelette Bohemian Eggs String Beans with Raisins Viennese Carrots Raspberry Souffle Cream Puffs St. Francis. ~ The bibliographer Dan Strehl identified the Alsatian Victor Hirtzler 1874-1931 some time ago in One Hundred Books on California Food and Wine Los Angeles: The Book Collectors 1990 page 21. as "one of the earliest celebrity chefs." Among other means of attracting restaurant clientele "Hirtzler presented seasonal menus demonstrating the highly sophisticated hotel dining of the time" with menus heavily influenced by the haute cuisine of European royal courts. After a sidereal career that included posts at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and the royal Belém Palace in Lisbon he had arrived at the St. Francis on Union Square in 1904 and thus endured the catastrophes of 1906 and remained after the rebuilding until 1925 when he retired to Strasbourg. A fuller account is available in David Shields's The Culinarians Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017 pages 526-529. ~ The didactic "models" presentation of L'Art culinaire is likely intended as a counter to Escoffier's Le guide culinaire a reference text that had recently appeared in an abridged English translation in 1907. Hirtzler's subscription edition of 1910 which includes a list of the patrons who underwrote its publication has become quite scarce. Stamped "Subscription Edition" on the front cover; includes the list of patrons that according to the edition note on page 9 was reserved for subscribers; all of these copies are missing two signatures which accounts for the pagination gap. ~ In publisher's tan cloth with black lettering. Light rubbing and extremity wear to covers. The front paste-down bears an ownership inscription in red pencil "Property of Marge deYoung Portland Ore." and the free front endpaper a rubber-stamped name and address of an Oregon paperback exchange. Good. OCLC locates thirteen copies of the subscription edition; Bitting page 230; Brown 95 undated; Glozer 127; Strehl 19; Cagle 362; not in Stoner. Putney Haight, Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company hardcover books
187249194Louisville KY: John P. Morton & Co 1872. Bifolium approx. 8¼" x 5½" showing on the front a wood engraving of the Louisville Hotel with hours of operation and on the back a wood engraving of another M. Kean & Co. property Maxwell House. The double-page spread on the inside gives an elaborate dinner menu on p. 2 for Tuesday March 19 including turtle soup leg of mutton jole and greens calf's feet a la Horli Sago cakes with wine roast prairie grouse with jelly as well as assorted vegetables relishes pastries and desserts; the wine list on page 3 lists 10 champaigns 14 clarets 3 ports 9 "native wines" and assorted white wines cider liqueurs ales and porters all with prices affixed. Fine example. The Louisville Hotel opened in 1833 was the city's first large elegant hotel; it closed in 1938 and was razed in 1949. M. Kean & Co the owner of the hotel also ran the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville which opened in 1869. <br/><br/> John P. Morton & Co unknown books
602444on the original printed photographer's mount by Parker 740 Fifth Ave. San Diego. Three story wooden structure occupied the entire block bounded by Third Fourth Fir and Grape streets. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2"; very good; ca. 1880. A contemporary note on verso records a visit in 1886. F. Hardcover. hardcover books
602407not signed on original printed photographer's mount by Parker 740 Fifth Ave. San Diego. 8 3/8" x 5 1/4"; very good light toning and soiling; minor signs of handling; ca. 1880's. The three story wooden structure occupied the entire block bounded by Third Fourth Fir and Grape Streets. The Florence claimed to be the "Society Hotel of Southern California; as well as the largest hotel in San Diego with extensive ocean views. A contemporary note on verso records a visit in 1886. F. Hardcover. hardcover books
19195838Chicago: Published by The Hotel Monthly Press John Willy Inc 1919. Large octavo 26 x 17.5 cm. iv 430 iv pages. Photographic portrait of the author in chef's whites and smoking cap frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements. Indexes. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A handsome reminting of selected material originally presented in the author's Hotel St. Francis Book of Recipes and Model Menus: L'Art culinaire of 1910 an important and influential professional cookbook that marked San Francisco's emergence as a world culinary center; includes too a sampling of menu files for corporate banquets and luncheons catered by the kitchen staff of St. Francis between 1915 and 1919 that is after the publication of L'Art culinaire. Composed as a series of menus ordered according to the calendar year at the head of each page followed beneath by recipes - some detailed some perfunctory - for selected items from the menus. The scope may be reasonably described as considerable. That the general index lists two hundred named recipes alone for preparing eggs conveys some idea of Hirtzler's manifestly irrepressible capacity for invention. ~ It is useful to remember that a century and more ago many of the compilers of local cookery books could claim intellectual ownership of what they published only by stretching the notion of authorship beyond all recognition. Maids and cooks were the relevant repositories of knowledge and disseminators of practice. And when the privileged class traveled - sometimes staying in one place for weeks months or seasons - hospitality service was for all intents and purposes an elaboration of home. Staff including those supervising the great hotel and resort dining rooms of the age were servants. Chefs may have been well regarded even fêted but today it is easy to forget that in yesterday's world the road to celebrity was paved by servitude. ~ But their cookbooks were the expression of their own authorial voices. In this they must be counted as unrepresentative of early cookbook publishing broadly however much their intricate arrangements garner attention. They may nonetheless be representative of place revelatory of both the preferences of a community and of the extensive apparatus built to satisfy it. ~ The bibliographer Dan Strehl identified the Alsatian Victor Hirtzler 1874-1931 some time ago in One Hundred Books on California Food & Wine Los Angeles: The Book Collectors 1990 page 21. as "one of the earliest celebrity chefs." Among other means of attracting restaurant clientele "Hirtzler presented seasonal menus demonstrating the highly sophisticated hotel dining of the time" with menus heavily influenced by the haute cuisine of European royal courts. After a sidereal career that included posts at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and the royal Belém Palace in Lisbon he had arrived at the St. Francis on Union Square in 1904 endured the catastrophes of 1906 and remained after the city's rebuilding until 1925 when he retired to Strasbourg. A fuller account is available in David Shields's The Culinarians Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017 pages 526-529. Thus it would not be far off the mark to describe the Hotel Monthly Press edition published in Chicago as a sort of monument or Gesamtausgabe honoring the career and achievement of an admired artist. ~ Near fine in publisher's green boards lettered and bordered in gilt. OCLC locates ninety copies; Bitting page 231; Brown 843; Cagle 363; not in Stoner. Published by The Hotel Monthly Press, John Willy, Inc hardcover books
188627638San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Co. 1886. Contemporary staples in original printed wrappers. 24 16 pp. Folding frontis engraving of the Hotel Del Monte "America's Famous Summer and Winter Resort" laid in. Light wear minor spotting Good or better with many illustrations and advertisements from railroads and Bay Area business establishments.<br/><br/> Naturally the unsurpassed quality of the Del Monte is emphasized: it "reminds one infinitely more of a modern English country mansion than of an American watering-place hotel." Photo illustrations of the hotel and sketches of its interior abound. The pamphlet also dwells on the beauties and sights of Monterey-- Pacific Grove Retreat Point Pinos Light House Moss Beach Seal Rocks Cypress Point the Carmel Mission. The excellent climate is also noted. Advertisers include the Southern Pacific Broad Gauge Company the Park and Ocean Railroad the Market St. Cable Railway the Wilkins House in Santa Cruz the Pacific Ocean House and others.<br/>OCLC 54266041 2- Yale CA State Lib. as of June 2021 but collating only 24pp. Not in Cowan. Rocq 5713 similar but probably not identical item. A.L. Bancroft & Co. unknown books
188139318n. p. 1881. 1st edition. Light wear to paper slight staining. Nevertheless a VG exmple. Broadside printed recto only. Large engraving by William R. Fish of Boston of the hotel and grounds. Caption reads: "Note: The Manager very reluctantly issues this Picture of Oakland Beach it is so unlike pictures generally in flattering a place for in this case instead of flattering justice is not rendered". 13-1/4" x 12-1/4" <br/><br/>"The Hotel is nearly new Elegantly furnished has unusually large airy rooms each room with Spacious Hanging Closet Lighted with Gas has Steam Heat so that in case of cold storms its patrons are made comfortable Modern Improvements a Lovely View of Ocean Fine Bathing Boating and Fishing a beautiful Lake of Fresh Water 125 Acres mostly Lawn with Concrete Walks Large Grove of Fine Old Oaks. Steamboat Connections to Various Points. Warwick & Oakland Beach R. R. terminates on the grounds connecting with Stonington Steamboats and Shore Line Trains from Grand Central Depot New York". -Elias Hotchkiss Manager For 10 Years Proprietor of St. James Hotel N. Y. City. No holdings listed of this advertisement on OCLC. Rare in the trade. unknown books
18147383Norristown Penn. 1814. Single sheet 20.75 x 11.5 cm. but irregular printed recto only; typographical border. Manuscript annotations. ~ A very early Pennsylvania bill of fare for the Norristown Hotel with a list of items on offer including Breakfast Dinner Supper Lodging Wine Brandy Gin Spirits Punch Porter Beer Cider Segars Hay and Oats. Manuscript annotations indicate "Gentleman's Bill May 16th 1814" with handwritten prices added for dinner brandy porter hay and oats a man on the move!. The final lines indicate payment of $4.25 and the elaborate signature of hotel owner Morris Jones. "Morris Jones gives notice in July 1813 that he kept the "Norristown Hotel corner of Egypt or Main and De Kalb Streets" and that "a constant supply of newspapers will be kept for the use of the house." This is interesting for giving an early mention of "hotel" which it would appear was now about being introduced as more pretentious than inn or tavern. It was a two-story stone house forty by thirty-seven feet with an adjoining kitchen. The stable was also of stone fifty by twenty-seven feet with sheds and outbuildings. This property was built by General Isaiah Wells about 1800 and kept by him until his election as sheriff when he moved to the jail. It was long known as the most noted stage-house in Norristown. In 1834 the Norristown Hotel was then kept by Levi Roberts and was offered at public sale by the assignees of Isaiah Wells." Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery Co PA; http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/beantoc.htm. A single horizontal crease from a fold; small pinhole between first two lines of text. Otherwise fine. Unrecorded. OCLC locates now copies not in AAS or Library Company of Philadelphia. unknown books
1920390Fifth Avenue Shopping District Map <i>circa</i>1920. Hotel Seville<i>. The Fine Art of Good Service. </i>John F. Garrety Manager. A promotional brochure 14 cm x 9 cm illustrated in color with a fold-out color map 27 cm x 20 cm of the "Fifth Avenue Shopping District" from Twenty-Sixth Street up to Forty-Second Street. A northern extension of Manhattan's famous "Ladies' Mile" of the Gilded Age up Fifth Avenue above Twenty-Third Street to Herald Square this early twentieth century area was called the "Fifth Avenue Shopping District." With street numbers on Broadway and Fifth Avenue printed in red; and subway stations stores churches insurance companies banks as well as the original Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and Thirty-Ninth Street all labeled this booklet is believed to be have been printed for the Hotel Seville about 1920. It is not later than 1924 when Saks & Company moved to Fifth Avenue and Forty-Ninth Street and became Saks Fifth Avenue. On the recto of the street map is a floor plan of the hotel with prices showing the footprint of each room. The back cover has a coat of arms with the motto: <i>Virtus Laudem Imperat</i>. Paper covers 12 pages. Fine almost as new. Hotel Seville books
19097574Minneapolis Minn: New Hotel Dyckman 1909. Duodecimo-sized booklet single-stapled in wrappers 11 x 6.5 cm. 44 pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional drink manual promoting Minneapolis' very fine Dyckman Hotel. One hundred-one recipes for cocktails are listed including some lesser-known gems: American Beauty Careless Love Bijou Charlie Horse Opalescent and the Electric Eel. Pages a bit age-toned and staples somewhat oxidized; a few small dog ears. In publisher's black wrappers titled in silver. Very good. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Noling. New Hotel Dyckman unknown books
19356045841935. 8" x 11"; 4 pages printed on heavy stock with tipped-on pictorial silver foil label on the front cover. Very good few creases. 1935. Signed by: Dorothy Parker; Edward G. Robinson and his wife Gladys Lloyd Robinson; James Cagney; Morgan McLeod; Pat O'Brien; Jeanne Ackerley; Rose Bissonetto; Frank Albertson; And others. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
1922867171922. HOTEL DROUOT. COLLECTION CH. HAVILAND. Paris: 1922. A series of auction catalogs of the collections of Japanese Art ceramics illustration and illustrated books including descriptions for the items as well as a total of 64 plates. The volumes comprise all Haviland auctions pertaining to Japanese Prints & books in a total of seven volumes. All catalogs are bound in paper covers some with slight soiling or tears all with spine reapairs in binder's tape. Interiors and plates bright and clean. First Sale November 27th-29th 1922: 20 plates 98p. Tenth Sale 2nd part June 4th-6th 1923: 16 plates 107p. Fourteenth Sale Febuary 4th & 7th 1924: 8 plates 88p. Fifteenth Sale October 20th-23rd 1924: 6 plates 70p. Sixteenth Sale March 2nd-4th 1925: 6 plates 62p. Seventeenth Sale June 15th-17th 1925: 4 plates 53p. Eighteenth Sale June 2nd-4th 1927: 4 plates 90p. An extensive group of volumes for reference research or historical interest Good condition. unknown books
1898LLV2670Territet & Montreux: 1898-1910. 1898. A look into the turn-of-the-century activities of a major hotel and the registers for recording guests from 1898-1910. These registers offer a primary resource to study the activities of the Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel Territet & Montreux. FIVE ALBUMS: 1 Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel. Livre des Etrangers. Approx. 26x37 cm. Unpaginated. Original quarter calf maroon gilt-stamped boards. This is an alphabetical register of guests showing the room number date of arrival the guest names home city number of persons in the party usually 1 or 2. Written in a clerk’s hand. As one might expect the list of guests shows largely European origins but other guests originate from as far away at Bombay and the U.S.A. 2 Livres d’arrivees. Album dated 1904. Approx. 31x41 cm. 600 pp. Brown linen. Manuscript entries from pages 1-397. The entries are dated 1905-1908 and are chronological. Again the main information here is last names and cities of origin as is usual. There is an accounting of the number of guests allowing a statistical analysis of the guest list. 3 Grand Hotel Territet arrivees. Approx. 26x36 cm. Unpaginated. Black cloth. Inset red leather title label stamped in gilt. Contains manuscript entries throughout from 1898 through 1901. The first names written in the ledger are: L. A. le Naharadja Kapurlhala India Colonel Marshall India Dewan Daolet Ram India. Dr. Louis Huysmans 1844-1915 Bruxelles was a guest on Sept. 4 1898. Louis Huysmans was best known for his loyalty to the monarchy and his patriotism. After the outbreak of the First World War he went into exile with his relatives in France and lived in the seaside resort of Sainte-Adresse the seat of the Belgian government in exile. 4 Grand Hotel Territet Livre des Etrangers. Approx. 31x44 cm. Unpaginated. Bound in ledger format leather applied to the upper and lower parts of the binding maroon gilt-stamped cover label pale brown tan cloth over boards. Filled with entries in the first 1/3 of the tome. Shop label of Papeterie Librairie Chs. Serex Vevey. Entries date from August 25 1905 through September 22 1909. Clerk hand. Shows names & cities for each entry. 5 Journal. 1904-1910. Approx. 34x47 cm. Shop label of Papeterie Librairie Chs. Serex Vevey. Foliated: 397 ff. Black or dark brown cloth red cloth gilt-stamped cover label; edges worn front joint mended with kozo. Internally very good. This is perhaps the most interesting of the registers. This particular one is unique among the five registers as this one details the operation of the hotel itself who they hired and/or what was supplied. Categories shown include: Cuisine kitchen “Chocolat Peter†etc. Cave wine: “G. Masson†“Beauregard†wine “Eaux de Montreux†“Blanchot†white wine “Gallo†accounting/tax/ new constructions/ lighting eclairage heating chauffage building maintenance entretien immeubles New York Herald reclamer laundry room buanderie etc. / General Notes Regarding the History of this Hotel: The Hotel des Alpes-Grand Hotel or Residence des Alpes is an assemblage of buildings which formed a former palace in the town of Territet in the Montreux municipality of Switzerland. In 1840 the town bought a parcel of land on which to build a hostel entitled ‘Chasseur des Alpes’. Over the following years this hostel was enlarged three times to become - in 1855 - the Hotel des Alpes. The main building was designed by Henri Chessex son of the owner and brother of Ami Chessex. The opening of the Hotel led to a tourist boom and in 1861 a railway line was opened between Montreux and Villeneuve calling at Territet. In 1875 a dining hall was added to the building and two years later Ami Chessex chose the architect Louis Maillard later joined by Eugene Jost to build the Grand Hotel beside the Hotel des Alpes. The decor was by Marcel de Chollet. The two buildings were linked by a corridor and soon formed a single structure. / Among the Hotel’s many notable guests were Elisabeth of Bavaria who visited four times and Francis Joseph I of Austria in 1893. The Hotel built on this success housing the first telephone in Switzerland. In 1975 it closed and its main hall and dining hall were turned into a theatre whilst the Grand Hotel’s bedrooms became the National Swiss Audiovisual Museum though this closed in 2008 and left the premises in 2012 to allow for their renovation. The two buildings are classed as cultural monuments. It suffered fires on 29 January 1984 and 28 September 2012. / This property is part of the ensemble Hetel des Alpes-Grand Hotel a monument of national importance. It belongs to Andre Regne better known under the pseudonym of "Dad" who was a key figure in the Montreux nightlife. The Alcazar a true Belle-Epoque jewel was built by the architect Eugene Jost at the end of the 19th century. Added pictures on request. ROUGH FRENCH TRANSLATION: OFFERTS A LA VENTE : Un regard sur les activites du debut du siecle d’un grand hotel et les registres d’enregistrement des clients de 1898 a 1910. Ces registres offrent une ressource primaire pour etudier les activites de l’Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel Territet & Montreux. 1 Hotel des Alpes & Grand Hotel. Livre des Etrangers. Environ 26x37 cm. Non pagine. Veau d’origine plats marron dores. / Il s’agit d’un registre alphabetique des invites indiquant le numero de la chambre la date d’arrivee les noms des invites la ville d’origine le nombre de personnes dans le groupe generalement 1 ou 2. Ecrit de la main d’un greffier. Comme on peut s’y attendre la liste des invites est essentiellement d’origine europeenne mais d’autres invites viennent d’aussi loin que Bombay et les Etats-Unis. 2 Livres d’arrivees. Album date 1904. Environ 31x41 cm. 600 pages. Lin brun. Entrees manuscrites des pages 1-397. Les entrees sont datees de 1905 a 1908 et sont chronologiques. La encore les principales informations sont les noms de famille et les villes d’origine comme d’habitude. Il y a un decompte du nombre d’invites permettant une analyse statistique de la liste des invites. 3 Grand Hotel Territet arrivees. Environ 26x36 cm. Non pagine. Toile noire. Etiquette de titre en cuir rouge emboîtee estampee en dore. Contient des entrees manuscrites tout au long de l’ouvrage de 1898 a 1901. Les prenoms ecrits dans le grand livre sont : L. A. le Naharadja Kapurlhala Inde Colonel Marshall Inde Dewan Daolet Ram Inde. Le Dr Louis Huysmans 1844-1915 Bruxelles a ete invite le 4 septembre 1898. Louis Huysmans etait surtout connu pour sa loyaute envers la monarchie et son patriotisme. Apres le debut de la Premiere Guerre mondiale il s’exila avec ses proches en France et vecut dans la station balneaire de Sainte-Adresse siege du gouvernement belge en exil. 4 Grand Hotel Territet Livre des Etrangers. Environ 31x44 cm. Non pagine. Relie en format grand livre cuir applique sur les parties superieures et inferieures de la reliure etiquette de couverture marron doree toile brun pâle tan sur les planches. Rempli d’entrees dans le premier 1/3 du tome. Etiquette de magasin de la Papeterie Librairie Chs. Serex Vevey. Les entrees datent du 25 août 1905 au 22 septembre 1909. Main de clerc. Indique les noms et les villes pour chaque entree. 5 Journal. 1904-1910. Environ 34x47 cm. Etiquette de magasin de la Papeterie Librairie Chs. Serex Vevey. Foliote : 397 ff. Toile noire ou brun fonce etiquette de couverture en toile rouge doree ; bords uses joint avant raccommode avec du kozo. En forme. C’est peut-être le plus interessant des registres. Il est unique parmi les cinq registres car il detaille le fonctionnement de l’hotel lui-même les personnes engagees et/ou les fournitures. Les categories presentees comprennent : Cuisine "Chocolat Peter" etc. Cave vin : "G. Masson" "Beauregard" "Eaux de Montreux" "Blanchot" "Gallo" comptabilite/taxe/ nouvelles constructions/ eclairage chauffage entretien immeubles New York Herald buanderie etc. / Notes generales sur l’histoire de cet hotel : L’Hotel des Alpes-Grand Hotel ou Residence des Alpes est un ensemble de bâtiments qui formaient un ancien palais dans la ville de Territet sur la commune de Montreux en Suisse. / En 1840 la ville achete une parcelle de terrain pour y construire une auberge intitulee "Chasseur des Alpes". Au cours des annees suivantes cette auberge a ete agrandie a trois reprises pour devenir en 1855 l’Hotel des Alpes. Le bâtiment principal est conçu par Henri Chessex fils du proprietaire et frere d’Ami Chessex. L’ouverture de l’Hotel entraîne un boom touristique et en 1861 une ligne de chemin de fer est ouverte entre Montreux et Villeneuve avec arrêt a Territet. En 1875 un refectoire est ajoute au bâtiment et deux ans plus tard Ami Chessex choisit l’architecte Louis Maillard rejoint plus tard par Eugene Jost pour construire le Grand Hotel a cote de l’Hotel des Alpes. Le decor est signe Marcel de Chollet. Les deux bâtiments sont relies par un couloir et ne forment bientot plus qu’une seule structure. / Parmi les nombreux hotes de marque de l’Hotel on compte Elisabeth de Baviere qui y sejourne a quatre reprises et François-Joseph Ier d’Autriche en 1893. L’Hotel s’est appuye sur ce succes pour abriter le premier telephone de Suisse. En 1975 il a ferme ses portes et sa grande salle et son refectoire ont ete transformes en theâtre tandis que les chambres du Grand Hotel sont devenues le Musee national suisse de l’audiovisuel mais celui-ci a ferme en 2008 et a quitte les lieux en 2012 pour permettre leur renovation. Les deux bâtiments sont classes monuments culturels. Il a subi des incendies le 29 janvier 1984 et le 28 septembre 2012. / Cette propriete fait partie de l’ensemble Hetel des Alpes-Grand Hotel monument d’importance nationale. Elle appartient a Andre Regne plus connu sous le pseudonyme de "Dad" qui etait une figure incontournable de la vie nocturne montreusienne. L’Alcazar veritable joyau de la Belle-Epoque a ete construit par l’architecte Eugene Jost a la fin du XIXe siecle. Photos sur demande. HEAVY! EXTA POSTAGE WILL APPLY. 1898-1910. hardcover books
