A 2006 renovation replaced a largely blue palette with a largely red one, including new carpet, bar stools and chairs. The renovation cost an estimated $1.5 million. The new bar is done in the same quatrefoil mahogany style as the balcony. The walls and ceiling were brought back to their former glory and the original steel safe, once hidden behind a wall, now sits in the massive fireplace as a reminder of Campbell's wealth. Īfter falling into disrepair, the space was restored and renovated in 1999. It also had a small jail, in the area of the present-day bar. Īfter Campbell's death in 1957, the rug and other furnishings disappeared from his office and the space eventually became a signalman's office and later an MTA Police office, where officers stored guns and other equipment. Campbell added a piano and pipe organ, and at night turned his office into a reception hall, entertaining 50 or 60 friends who came to hear famous musicians play private recitals. The Persian carpet that took up the entire floor was said to have cost $300,000, or roughly $3.5 million today. Allen, an architect known for designing estates on Long Island and town houses in Manhattan, to build an opulent office, transforming the room into a 13th-century Florentine palace with a hand-painted plaster of paris ceiling, leaded windows, and a mahogany balcony with a quatrefoil design. At that time, it was the largest ground-floor space in Manhattan. The 3,500-square-foot (330 m 2) space was a single room 60 feet (18 m) long by 30 feet (9.1 m) wide with a 25-foot (7.6 m) ceiling and an enormous faux fireplace in which Campbell kept a steel safe. Campbell from William Kissam Vanderbilt II, whose family built the Terminal. The space was first leased in 1923 by John W. Located in the southwestern corner of the Grand Central Terminal building-above the northeastern corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue-the space is reached by a staircase from the terminal's balcony level. Temporarily closed in 2016, the bar was reopened the following year under new management. Renovations in 19 restored the space to its original opulence at a total cost of nearly $2 million. It was later used as office space, as a studio by CBS and as a jail by Metro-North Railroad.

Campbell, a member of the New York Central Railroad's board of directors. The space, long known as the Campbell Apartment, was once the office of American financier John W. The Campbell is a bar and cocktail lounge in Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Cocktail bar in New York City The Campbell Bar The space as John Campbell's office, c.

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