Mrs. Jean MacArthur attends the Grand Ballroom restoration, 1983

Mrs. Jean MacArthur attends the Grand Ballroom restoration, 1983

MacArthur, Jean Faircloth

Black and white photograph depicting the General’s widow, Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, and General Manager Joseph Rantisi in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel on August 5, 1983. For decades Art Deco ornamental grilles, part of the Grand Ballroom’s original design scheme, had been concealed by 30-foot canvas murals, the removal of which (by workers on 30-foot-high cherry pickers) marked the turning point in a $2 million restoration of the famous space. The murals were later donated to the Christ Church at Park Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan.

1983-08-05

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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present

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