Date: Built in 1884.

Architects: Hubert, Pirsson & Co.

Chelsea Hotel in History: The hotel started out as a co-op apartment building and was, surprisingly enough, the city's tallest building for more than a decade. In 1905, after the co-op went bankrupt, the Chelsea turned into a hotel and quickly became the favorite lodging (or hangout) for a number of notable visitors to New York over the course of the 20th century, including Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs and Andy Warhol.

Chelsea Hotel Today: The hotel is not the countercultural mecca it was when Sid Vicious used to hang out there, but the opening of the sleek lounge Serena a few years ago, in the hotel basement, has insured the continued presence of the city's hipoisie on the premises.

Address: 222 West 23rd Street
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