Hotel Lexington, New York 1938 Bronx Whitestone naming it after his home

naming it after his home city on China's northeast coast

Its crown has slipped slightly from those heady days but it remains a destination restaurant

was requisitioned for troop transport – but Franconia also had a moment in the history books when she served as the British base of operations for the fateful Yalta Conference

the factory returned to the family’s ownership

MacDonald designed the cocktail and dinner menus for the Cunard White Star Line including this early 1925 work for the R

Hotel Lexington, New York 1938 Bronx Whitestone naming it after his homeThe Lexington Hotel opened in 1929 as the Hotel Lexington, at the height of the Manhattan midtown hotel boom, 1920s to the 1930s. The hotel opened with a promise by General J. Leslie Kincaid, president of the American Hotel Corporation, to provide a thoroughly modern house of refined atmosphere and exceptional service without the annoyance and confusion that is often experienced in hotels catering to large assemblages. The Hotel Lexington was home to