Lido Beach Towers
USA /
New York /
Lido Beach /
World
/ USA
/ New York
/ Lido Beach
World / United States / New York
condominium, Moorish Revival (architecture), interesting place
The Moorish-style building, with 184 units, was formerly the Lido Beach Hotel, for half a century the dowager queen of this South Shore beach community. Completed in 1929 for Sen. William H. Reynolds, the 300-room hotel was designed to be an exclusive seaside country club reminiscent of a Riviera spa. Its restaurant had a retractable domed roof for dining under the stars. The circular nightclub drew a flashy roster of entertainers that included Sammy Davis Jr., Barbra Streisand and Connie Francis. The pool was designed by William Albert Swasey.
But times changed, the allure faded and the last guests checked out. In 1981, the hotel, on 12 sandy beachfront acres on the border with Long Beach, was converted into a condominium. But the nightclub, indoor and outdoor Olympic-size pools, 1,000-seat dining room, jewelry store and seaside promenade are long gone. The bubble-gum-colored hotel, now lusterless gray stucco, was intended to be the jewel in State Senator William Reynolds's plan to make Lido Beach the Venice of America.
usmodernist.org/AM/AM-1934-11.pdf
But times changed, the allure faded and the last guests checked out. In 1981, the hotel, on 12 sandy beachfront acres on the border with Long Beach, was converted into a condominium. But the nightclub, indoor and outdoor Olympic-size pools, 1,000-seat dining room, jewelry store and seaside promenade are long gone. The bubble-gum-colored hotel, now lusterless gray stucco, was intended to be the jewel in State Senator William Reynolds's plan to make Lido Beach the Venice of America.
usmodernist.org/AM/AM-1934-11.pdf
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°35'4"N 73°38'11"W
- Jones Beach State Park 5.9 km
- Meadow Island 6.4 km
- Central Railroad of Long Island 17 km
- The Alley 23 km
- Old Bethpage Village Restoration 27 km
- "The Trinity Root" by Steve Tobin (2005) 34 km
- Historic Hauppauge Makay Radio Ruins 40 km
- Central Islip Psychiatric Center Rail Spur 43 km
- Old Subdivision Lakeland 47 km
- Nissequogue River State Park 48 km
- Lido Beach, New York 2.2 km
- Barnum Island, New York 2.7 km
- Island Park, New York 2.8 km
- Alder Island 5.1 km
- Point Lookout, New York 5.2 km
- Oceanside, New York 5.4 km
- Baldwin Harbor, New York 5.9 km
- Baldwin, New York 8.1 km
- Merrick, New York 11 km
- Nassau County, New York 19 km
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