Chelsea Hotel Doors For Sale

The hundreds of paintings that adorned its walls have been locked away in storage.

Chelsea hotel doors for sale.

The door to us singer bob dylan s room at the iconic chelsea hotel in new york has sold at auction for 100 000 70 000. Initially conceived as a housing cooperative the chelsea first opened its doors in 1884 but was later reimagined as a hotel. Iggy pop and bette davis shared room 126 decades. It was built between 1883 and 1885 and is known primarily for two things.

In guernsey s unusual chelsea hotel sale the door to beat poet herbert huncke s room sold for 5 000. One hotel s trash could be many a history buff s treasure. The famous residents it had and the number of deaths that took place. The chelsea hotel is a historic landmark in new york city located on west 23rd street between 7th and 8th avenues.

The sale featured architectural relics with connections to a dizzying array of artists authors actors and musicians. The doors from the chelsea hotel in new york city have been sold for 400 000 including the door to the room where bob dylan wrote blonde on blonde. Though the chelsea no longer accepts new long term. The hotel chelsea also called the chelsea hotel or simply the chelsea is a hotel in manhattan new york city built between 1883 and 1885 the 250 unit hotel is located at 222 west 23rd street between seventh and eighth avenues in the neighborhood of chelsea.

On thursday guernsey s will auction off 55 individual doors from the chelsea hotel rooms where joni mitchell w e b. The pieces are doors from some of the rooms where things that made the chelsea famous happened and there are some head spinning juxtapositions. Today the halls of the chelsea hotel are salted with dust. A new owner evicted many longstanding residents in 2008 and the hotel.