ALGONQUIN HOTEL
Hotel — New York, New York
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/algonquin-hotel-new-york-new-york/

The Round Table’s hotel—Dorothy Parker’s seat is reportedly still warm.

A hotel in New York, New York, Algonquin Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Round Table’s hotel—Dorothy Parker’s seat is reportedly still warm. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the round table. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still takes guests.

The Algonquin Hotel was built in 1902 — the Manhattan hotel whose Round Table made it the headquarters of American wit: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and the Vicious Circle lunched there through the 1920s, the table being the country's most famous gathering of sharp tongues.
The file's documented spine is the Round Table's legend: a lunch that became an institution, the wits' daily gathering making the hotel the literary capital's club room.

THE WITS AT THE TABLE
The lore reports the wits reportedly seen at the table — the file's ghost being the Round Table itself: the Vicious Circle's members reportedly still lunching, the hotel keeping the gathering that made it famous.
The spectral Round Table is the file's signature — American wit's greatest lunch reportedly still in session, the Algonquin's table keeping the company that never adjourned.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Algonquin is the archive's literary-lunch file — the 1902 hotel keeping the Round Table reportedly still seated. The documented gatherings are the record; the spectral wits are the lore of a lunch that became immortal.
A hotel that hosted the country's sharpest table keeps it — the file's suggestion being that the Vicious Circle's lunch never ended, the wits still at the Algonquin's table.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The wits are reportedly seen at the table. Witnesses name it The Round Table; the name travels further than the proof. A hotel in New York, New York with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. 'Algonquin' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: Algonquin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Hotel)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures in the lobby. Algonquin Hotel, a hotel in New York, New York, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The report is preserved in sources like 'Algonquin'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: Algonquin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Hotel)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1902] Built 1902; the Round Table is documented. Algonquin Hotel's documented history in New York, New York is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Algonquin' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Algonquin — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Hotel

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