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Former New York Hotel, Hotel Continental

Hotel Continental
Former New York Hotel, Hotel Continental
Hotel Continental
New York szálló Kolozsvár
Wikizoli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Current function:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Settlement:
Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca
Address:
Strada Universității 1
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.7683993582, 23.5896910012
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History

The hotel was built between 1893-1894 on the site of the former National Hotel in neo-Baroque style, designed by Pákei Lajos, the chief architect of Kolozsvár. The National Hotel was built in the 1860s and was the second hotel in Kolozsvár. Several famous Hungarian, e.g. Speaker of the House Count Apponyi Albert, Molnár Ferenc, who worked as a war correspondent, the poet Ady Endre and the writer Jókai Mór stayed in the hotel. On the ground floor was the most famous literary café in Kolozsvár. Its electric lighting, central heating, and the retractable glass roof of its courtyard made it the most exclusive hotel in Transylvania. In the 1960s it became a luxury hotel, the Hotel Continental. Today it stands abandoned.

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