Mr george c boldt biography
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History
At the turn-of-the-century, George C. Boldt, millionaire proprietor of the world famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, set out to build a full size rhineland castle in Alexandria Bay, on picturesque Heart Island. The grandiose structure was to be a display of his love for his wife, Louise.
Beginning in 1900, the Boldt family spent summers in the 1000 Islands at the Boldt Family’s Wellesley House near Mr. Boldt’s Wellesley Island Farms while 300 workers including stonemasons, carpenters, and artists fashioned the six story, 120 room castle, complete with tunnels, a powerhouse, Italian gardens, a drawbridge, alster tower (children’s playhouse) and a dove cote. Not a single detail or expense was spared.
In January 1904, tragedy träffad. Boldt telegraphed the island and commanded the workers to immediately “stop all construction.” Louise had died suddenly. A broken hearted Boldt could not imagine his dream castle without his beloved. Bol
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George Boldt
American hotelier
For his son, the American hotelier, see George Charles Boldt Jr. For the U.S. federal judge, see George Hugo Boldt. For the philosopher of religion, see Georg Boldt.
George Charles Boldt Sr. (April 25, 1851 – December 5, 1916) was a Prussian-born American hotelier. A self-made millionaire, he influenced the development of the urban hotel as a civic social center and luxury destination.[1]
Life and career
[edit]He was born as Georg Karl Boldt in Bergen auf Rügen, Pommern, on April 25, 1851.[2][a] He immigrated to the United States in 1864.[1] He began as a kitchen worker in New York and, at age 25, was hired (by his future father-in-law) to manage the dining room of Philadelphia's most exclusive gentlemen's club, The Philadelphia Club.
Boldt's first hotel was the Bellevue (1881), at the northwest corner of Broad & Walnut Streets, in Philadelphia. He soon bought a competing hotel, the Stratfor
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The story goes back to the late 1880s. On cold, rainy night, an elderly couple walked into a small hotel in Philadelphia to shelter from the storm. The clerk, a young man, tried to accommodate the couple, but unfortunately the hotel was booked out. Not wanting to send them out into the rain and seeing no other alternative, he offered them his room for the night. "It's not exactly a suite, but it will make you folks comfortable." Hesitatingly, the couple took up his offer. After a night's rest, the gentleman—while clearing the bill the next morning—told the clerk that he was touched by his gesture. He would be ideal to run the best hotel in the US, he said. "Maybe someday I'll build one for you," is what he is rumoured to have said.
Some call it the origin of the Waldorf principle of selfless service, others an urban legend.
Two years later, the clerk received a letter recounting that fateful night in Philadelphia, along with a ticket to New York.