Nobody Asked Me, But… No. 179: Hotel History: Julius Manger: One of The Greatest Hotel Owners of The Twentieth Century

Stanley Turkel | June 5, 2017

by Stanley Turkel, CMHS Hotel History: Julius Manger (1868-1937): Julius Manger was born in Boonville, Missouri. He graduated from the Tulane University Law School. At the age of twenty-eight, he engaged in the coffee business and was later associated with his brother, William, in the construction business in Galveston, Texas. They later located the hub of their business activities to New York City where they built more than 500 homes in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. They also built the Builders Exchange Building in Manhattan and in 1907 traded it for the Plaza Hotel in Chicago, which was the beginning of their successful venture ...