![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This compelling book is a story of Manhattan as well as a history of women’s ambition. While the building itself incorporates a blend of Italian Renaissance, Late Gothic Revival, and Islamic decorative elements and is on the National Register of Historic Places, the important and overarching history of labor and women’s rights is told via the portraits of the women who stayed there. It remained a women-only hotel until 1981, and this book shares its rich history. Before the hotel’s residents, such as Sylvia Plath, Grace Kelly, Liza Minelli, Joan Didion, and Meg Wolitzer became household names, they were young women arriving at the Barbizon with “a suitcase and a dream.” The Barbizon was a place for women to remake themselves or come into their own. Opened in 1927, it became a destination for the modern woman seeking a career in the arts, the place to stay for women seeking fame and fortune. ![]() The Barbizon was a New York City women-only hotel that catered to the glamorous, famous and ordinary. ![]()
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