Episode 1 of 1
Windsor Hotel Fire
- When
- March 17, 1899
- Where
- 575 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
A fire destroyed the Windsor Hotel in Manhattan on March 17, 1899, resulting in 45 confirmed deaths and 41 presumed dead.
The blaze spread rapidly due to the lack of cross walls required by law. The incident occurred while crowds watched a parade, destroying the hotel within 90 minutes.
Sources
- Windsor Hotel fire Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-17
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.