Wikidata records 316 hotels that opened in the 1930s, from 1930 to 1939, in 49 countries; most of them in the United States (150), Japan (15) and Poland (11).[1][2] The best known, by the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it, is Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.), opened in 1931. The year with the most recorded openings is 1930, with 60.
Method
A hotel is listed under the year of the earliest date Wikidata gives for its official opening or, where it gives none, its inception. For a building converted into a hotel, the inception is often that of the building. Hotels that have since closed are included. Decades with at least 25 dated hotels have a list of their own. Within each year, hotels are in alphabetical order.[1][2]
Summary
By type: hotel (261), lodge (18), inn (10), motel (9) and pension (5), and 13 of other types. By country: United States (150), Japan (15), Poland (11), Israel (10), Russia (9), United Kingdom (8), Libya (8), Canada (7), Finland (7), China (6), and 39 more countries. Architectural styles recorded most often: Art Deco (62), Streamline Moderne (14), National Park Service rustic (8), Pueblo Revival Style (5), functionalism (4), Mediterranean Revival (4), Pahlavi (4), rationalism (4), rustic (4), modern (3), Tudor Revival (3), Bauhaus (2).[1][2]
1930
The 35 best known of 60, by the number of Wikipedia language editions that cover them.
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
The 35 best known of 38, by the number of Wikipedia language editions that cover them.
1937
1938
1939
The 35 best known of 39, by the number of Wikipedia language editions that cover them.
Architects
Architects and firms with an article in Innpedia who designed hotels opened in the 1930s, by the number of them.
- Henry Hohauser (12)
- Lawrence Murray Dixon (12)
- Albert Anis (6)
- Florestano Di Fausto (5)
- Martin L. Hampton (4)
- Roy F. France (4)
- Victor Nellenbogen (4)
- Harry O. Nelson (3)
- Anton Skislewicz (2)
- Archibald and Schofield (2)
- Emery Roth (2)
- Märta Blomstedt (2)
- Schultze & Weaver (2)
- Siegfried Mazagg (2)
- Vittorio Bonadè Bottino (2)
- Alexey Shchusev (1)
- Alois Krofta (1)
- Bernard Bijvoet (1)
- Charles L. Thompson and associates (1)
- David S. Castle (1)
See also
- List of hotels opened in the 1920s
- List of hotels opened in the 1940s
- List of oldest hotels
- Hotels by architectural style
- List of hotel architects
References
- ^ Date of official opening (P1619). Wikidata. CC0.
- ^ Inception (P571). Wikidata. CC0.
Facts as stated in Wikidata, read in October 2026.