Garden City Hotel

The hotel passed to Cornelia Stewart's family, who formed The Garden City Company to manage the property.

It was built in the Dutch Colonial style, with a cupola modeled after the one at Philadelphia's Independence Hall.

[7] Charles Lindbergh, rented a room at the hotel on May 20, 1927, the night before his famous transatlantic flight to Paris.

He announced numerous plans to redevelop the site with a combination hotel/office usage, all of which were turned down by the village's board of trustees, before they agreed on a modern 500-room hotel and a separate building with 305 luxury condominiums.

The planned replacement complex was designed by Thomas E. Stanley, architect of Manhattan's Gulf and Western Building.

[12] Developer Myron Nelkin eventually purchased the land and built the fourth Garden City Hotel, which opened on May 20, 1983.

[19] The hotel has hosted many world leaders and celebrities, including John F. Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Prince Khalid of Saudi Arabia, and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.