August 3, 1881, NYT, Improving the Hotels; Extensive Additions and Alterations Now In Progress,

August 3, 1881, New York Times, Improving the Hotels; Extensive Additions and Alterations Now In Progress,
Hotel Proprietors Preparing For a Big Fall Business---The Up-Town Hostelries Being Enlarged and Refitted---Large Sums of Money Expended in the Work,

A signal illustration of the preparations in progress for the Fall trade is furnished by the extensive alterations which are now being made in our first-class hotels, particularly in those situated above Union-Square and, in that immediate vicinity.

At the Gilsey House, corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth-street, the Broadway front is being extended 67 feet, giving space for four fine stores on the ground floor and 50 lodging rooms above. The extension is in the same style as the main building, and forms an integral part of it, thus giving a more imposing appearance to this almost solitary representative of the application of iron to the erection of first class hotels.