Moving the Hotel Brighton

Collection: This image is from The William J. Rugen Image Collection and is depicted in a print, and digital image.; Image is part of The William J. Rugen Image Collection

Date: 1888 Material: gelatin silver prints Dimension: 3 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: William J. Rugen Identifier: aql:15454 wjr-000882 wjr-000882.tif

Description: April 3, 1888, was moving day for the Hotel Brighton, a.k.a. the Brighton Beach Hotel. The beach was eroding and waves were lapping at the doors of the hotel. Something had to be done as the building was in danger of being swept out to sea. Its owner decided to save his hotel. He contracted the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Rail Road Company to lay 24 tracks under the 174-room, 3-story hotel and load it on 112 cars for movement 600 feet further inland. The hotel survived at its new location until it was demolished in 1923. A wider view of the entire scene is seen in wjr-000689.

Title : Moving the Hotel Brighton

Collection : aql:9443

Creator : William J. Rugen

Date : 1888

Summary/Description : April 3, 1888, was moving day for the Hotel Brighton, a.k.a. the Brighton Beach Hotel. The beach was eroding and waves were lapping at the doors of the hotel. Something had to be done as the building was in danger of being swept out to sea. Its owner decided to save his hotel. He contracted the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Rail Road Company to lay 24 tracks under the 174-room, 3-story hotel and load it on 112 cars for movement 600 feet further inland. The hotel survived at its new location until it was demolished in 1923. A wider view of the entire scene is seen in wjr-000689.

Subject : Hotels; Locomotives

Relation : This image is from The William J. Rugen Image Collection and is depicted in a print, and digital image.; Image is part of The William J. Rugen Image Collection

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Brighton Beach Avenue near Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)

Type : black and white print; digital image

Format : gelatin silver prints; 3 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:15454 wjr-000882 wjr-000882.tif