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InterContinental New York Barclay
Cross & Cross's 1926 Barclay, a 14-story apartment hotel in Grand Central's 'Terminal City', where Ernest Hemingway finished For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- Built
- 1926Opened 1926 as The Barclay, a 14-story apartment hotel designed by Cross & Cross (HHA); NYC PLUTO also lists 1926.
- Style
- Federal / Renaissance Revival
- Architect
- Cross & Cross
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Area
- Midtown
- Credentials
- Historic Hotels of America member
The story
The Barclay Park Corporation, led by architect Eliot Cross and William Seward Webb Jr., built the 14-story apartment hotel on New York Central Railroad land in ‘Terminal City’ and opened it in 1926. Ernest Hemingway finished For Whom the Bell Tolls there after returning from Spain in 1940. InterContinental took it over in 1978, and IHG spent $180 million restoring it from 2014; the hotel marks its centennial in 2026.
Good to know
- Address: 111 East 48th Street, New York, NY 10017
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.