Where was the first hotel built in the United States?

In the fall of 1794 -- 200 years ago this month -- the first hotel in America opened for business. The City Hotel, at the corner of Broadway and Thames Street near Trinity Church in New York City, was the first American structure to be designed and built as a hotel.



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