Estate Find

Vintage Hotel Key and Fob

Plaza Hotel

Room 254

Buenos Aires Argentina

Vintage skeleton key and black fob from Argentina.

It was inaugurated as the Plaza Hotel on July 15, 1909.

Touted at the time as the finest hotel in South America, it was also its most modern. The original 160 rooms and 16 suites had central heating, telephones, and elevator service. The hotel was wholly furnished by the prestigious London houses of Thompson & Company and Waring & Gillow. Marble sculptures by Gustav Eberlein of Germany and ceiling frescoes by Julio Vila y Prades of Spain added to its decor. Two new wings were added between 1942 and 1948, and additional work completed in 1977 brought the number of rooms to nearly 400. The Philippine Embassy in Buenos Aires initially based itself out of the hotel when it opened in 1949.