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The Metropolitan Hotel opened September 1, 1852. It occupied a three-hundred-foot brownstone-faced frontage of four floors above fashionable shopfronts occupying a full city block on Broadway and two hundred feet on Prince Street. The Metropolitan, operated on the “American plan” that included three meals a day, was managed by the Leland brothers, organizers of the first American hotel chain.[5] Unlike many New York hotels, the Metropolitan allowed the slaves of its Southern patrons to stay on the premises. Mary Todd Lincoln and her black seamstress, Elizabeth Keckley stayed at the Metropolitan on various occasions. The building was demolished in 1895.
