NEW YORK -- The 80-year-old Barbizon Hotel, located on Lexington Avenue at 63rd Street, is getting a new name to go along with its $40 million face-lift. The 306-room property, which opened in 1921 as ...

Discover the amenities available to women of a certain set eager to occupy the Barbizon’s rooms. Ponder why Sylvia Plath tossed her carefully curated wardrobe off the roof of the Barbizon. Experience ...

When well-brought-up young women used to come to New York to live, many of them hopped in cabs and headed straight to 140 E. 63rd St. The building that occupied the corner of East 63rd and Lexington ...

The Barbizon Hotel for Women was built in 1927 as a residential hotel and clubhouse for single women who came to New York for professional opportunities. Designed by the prominent hotel architects ...

What could $10 buy you in New York City in October of 1927? For one thing, a one-week stay at the brand new “Barbizon Club — Residence for Women,” later simplified to the Barbizon. No men were allowed ...

The Barbizon Hotel for Women, currently known as Barbizon 63, was known for giving women a safe (and chaste!) retreat right in the big, bad Big Apple (at 140 East 63rd Street, to be exact). The ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! In the mid-20th century, New York’s all-female Barbizon Hotel afforded young women the opportunity to pursue independent lives. Author Paulina Bren ...

Paulina Bren will guide you through the history of New York’s most famous women-only residential hotel from the time it opened its doors in 1928 to its transformation into luxury condominiums in 2005.

YOUNG WOMEN with ambitions too big for their small towns have long set their sights on New York. For those who could afford it, their first port of call for much of the 20th century was the Barbizon, ...