The hotel attracted people such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Washington Irving, and other New York City literary figures and socialites who were first attracted to the hotel as a refuge from an outbreak of cholera. The Pavilion was destroyed by fire on June 25, 1864.
A notable hotel attracted notable writers like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Washington Irving, along with other prominent literary and social figures in New York City, who initially took refuge there to escape a cholera epidemic. The Pavilion was destroyed by flames on June 25, 1864.