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 | | It started as two hotels: one owned by William Waldorf Astor, whose 13-story Waldorf Hotel was opened in 1893 and the other owned by John Jacob Astor IV, called the Astoria Hotel and opened four years later and four stories higher. |
 | | William Astor, motivated in part by a dispute with his aunt, built the original Waldorf Hotel next door to her home, on the site of his father's mansion and today's Empire State Building. |
 | | The hotel was built to the specifications of George Boldt ; he and his wife Louise had become known as the operators of the Bellevue-Stratford, a boutique hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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