Condado Vanderbilt Hotel

The Condado Vanderbilt Hotel on Ashford Avenue in the U.S. territory of San Juan, Puerto Rico is a hotel built in 1919. It has also been known as Grand Hotel Condado Vanderbilt, The Condado Hotel, Hotel Condado, Condado Beach Hotel, and the Hyatt Puerto Rico Hotel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It, along with the La Concha Resort, is currently under reconstruction as a part of the Condado Trio Renovation Project that aims to revive the western part of the district of Condado in San Juan.^[3] The hotel was designed by the architectural firm Warren and Wetmore, who also designed New York's Grand Central Station. It was built by the Vanderbilt Family and it marked the beginning of high end tourism in Puerto Rico.^[4] The hotel reopened partially on 16 October 2012 but most of its guestrooms and suites located in two adjacent 11-story towers would be made available in 2013.^[4] The renovated hotel also features five restaurants, one of which, "19 Nineteen" or "1919", is credited as "Puerto Rico's finest restaurant".^[4]

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