Structure Type: built works - dwellings -public accommodations - hotels
Designers: Couchot and MacDonald, Architects and Engineers (firm); Maurice C. Couchot (architect); Kenneth MacDonald Jr. (architect)
Dates: constructed 1924
Unbuilt? Designed for the film exhibitor, Jesse L. Lasky, Frank Case, and the actors, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford; the latter two also were founding investors (along with actor Charlie Chaplin and director, D.W. Griffith) in United Artists, a company, founded in 1919, to distribute the work of independent film directors who created films on their own or rented studio properties; the hotel was to have been large, twelve stories, and expensive, $1,500,000;
PCAD id: 4000