According to an article in the Jan. 19, 1995, Wilmington Morning Star, the Hotel Astor was set to be auctioned off from the steps of the New Hanover County Courthouse by the end of the month.

Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...

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John Jacob Astor III, along with his wife Charlotte Gibbs, was a major philanthropist who founded the Children's Aid Society. The iconic Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City was the result of a ...

An auction that marks a painful chapter. The Astor Hotel in Florence, sadly famous for the disappearance of little Kata, is now up for auction for two million euros. This building ...

The 14-story edifice occupies the site of the historic Astor Hotel, on the nexus of Canal and Bourbon streets, as central to all the sights as can be found in New Orleans.

predecessor to the Hotel Bethlehem. That was John Jacob Astor IV, then among the richest men in America. It was a story that Edith Wharton, who mixed socially on the edges of that world ...

Others had mixed reviews regarding the customer service, while some cautioned that the hotel is noisy, given its central location. If you're not a stickler for newness, however, you should be more ...