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Lüchow's was a restaurant at 110 East 14th Street at Irving Place in East Village (near Union Square) in Manhattan, New York City, with the property running clear through the block to 13th Street. It was established in 1882^[1] – at a time when the surrounding neighborhood was primarily residential^[2] – when a German immigrant, August Lüchow, purchased the cafe where he worked as a bartender and waiter.^[3] Lüchow's remained in operation at this place for a full century, becoming a favorite establishment for people in the entertainment world, helped by its proximity to the Academy of Music, the city's opera house, as well as Steinway Hall and Tammany Hall, where other entertainment was offered.^[2]

Although in the 1930s columnist O. O. McIntyre had written "In a changing world, nothing changes at Lüchow's", eventually even the long-running establishment came to an end,^[4] closing after an attempt to stimulate business in 1982 by moving to the Theater District.^[5] This new effort failed and ended in 1984,^[2] leaving behind satellite locations which closed permanently in May 1986.^[6] The 14th Street building was finally demolished in 1995^[7] after being gutted by a fire the year before.^[8]

Pronunciation

The German name Lüchow is pronounced [ˈlyːçoː] with the ⟨w⟩ being silent. The restaurant's name has generally been pronounced /ˈluːtʃaʊz/ LOO-chowz, an Anglicization. The umlaut over the ⟨ü⟩ was left out between 1917 and 1950,^[9] which is said to have caused difficulties: "The absence of the umlaut had led many new customers to believe that the place was a Chinese restaurant," according to The New York Times.^[9]

History

Through the doors of Luchow's pass all the famous people of the world.

—Legend seen on entering the main reception room,
originally said by James Montgomery Flagg^[10]

August Guido Lüchow immigrated from Hanover, Germany, to the United States in 1879, at the age of 23.^[11] After working as waiter for a cafe on Duane Street, he became a bartender and waiter at a cafe and beer garden belonging to Baron von Mehlbach.^[12] Three years later, he was able to purchase the business with the help of a $1500 loan from William Steinway, the piano magnate,^[3] whose Steinway Hall venue was across the street at Union Square, and who was a regular customer at the von Mehlbach establishment.^[12] The property was only about an eighth in size of what would become Lüchow's, and did not yet reach 13th Street on the downtown side.^[12]

At that time the stretch of 14th Street extending crosstown on either side of Union Square was at the heart of the most prestigious part of the city, and August Lüchow's new establishment quickly became known as "the capital of 14th Street".^[13]

William Steinway has been called the "patron saint" of Lüchow's^[14]

Diamond Jim Brady was a habitué of the restaurant ...

... and had noted actress Lillian Russell as his eating companion

Steinway and his circle of touring and transplanted European musicians comprised Lüchow's core clientele during the early years. A pre-sailing farewell engagement at Lüchow's in honor of the pianist Ignaz Paderewski – which lasted six hours – is noted by The New York Times in 1906.^[15] James Huneker, writing for the Times in 1919,^[16] describes how he was called upon in the 1890s to introduce Antonín Dvořák – who is referred to as "Old Borax" – to New York society by founder of the National Conservatory Jeanette Myers Thurber, who had engaged the composer to lead her nascent musical institution: "Later we went down to Gus Lüchow's. For a musician not to be seen at Lüchow's argued that he was unknown in the social world of tone." Huneker also relates several anecdotes about Oscar Hammerstein, another Lüchow's regular.^[16]

Early operation

By 1885 Lüchow had become the American agent for Würzburger Beer and shortly thereafter for Pilsner,^[17] another famous brand, made with soft water. Space was at a premium, and so the beer garden located behind the original restaurant on the east was made to provide access to a newly purchased lot extending back to 13th Street, on which stables were built to enable delivery of beer throughout the city.^[18] In 1902 further construction was undertaken,^[19] converting the stables, beer garden, and another large space behind the bar on the west into three ornate dark-paneled rooms, two of which had 30-foot (9.1 m) ceilings – with frosted skylights with etched stained glass. These became known as the "Heidelberg Room" – still being called "the New Room" eighty years later,^[18] "Garden" – because it occupied the location of the original beer garden – and "Cafe", respectively. With the purchase in 1910 of the Huber Museum property at 106 East 14th Street^[20] the restaurant's physical layout took its final form, allowing the addition of two more public rooms: Hunting, and Nibelungen. The restaurant opened a satellite restaurant at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition held in Buffalo, NY, as part of its German Village ("Alt Nürnberg").^[21]

The Heidelberg Room featured a large painting of The Potato Gatherers by Swedish artist August Hagborg, that Lüchow had purchased at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, when he was there to run the food concession for the Tyrolean Alps Exhibit.^[19] The painting was still to be found in its place at the back of the New Room in 1980^[18] – near the 13th Street entrance.^[22] Also prominent in the Heidelberg Room was an extremely large model of the four masted clipper ship Great Republic^[18] which was visible from the majority of tables in the six main rooms, in addition to numerous "small masterpieces of the Dutch, Austrian and Flemish schools".^[23] Multitudes of mounted animal heads^[24] and colorful beer steins having German and Austrian geographical significance – of varied and sometimes extreme size – were displayed throughout the room.^[10]^[25] The Hunting (or Hunt) Room – where, as latter-day owner Jan Mitchell once observed^[23] "twenty-one mounted deer heads gaze in blank nonchalance upon the pleasant spectacle of their descendants being eaten with considerable satisfaction" – was especially prolific in regard to taxidermy, and provided a few big tables to accommodate the larger parties of guests within the public rooms.

The Art Nouveau "Diamond Jim Brady Room" was fitted out with matching cabinetry appointments and Tiffany glass, with arched mirrors of beveled glass and cut flowers across an expanse of marble and dark carved mahogany: "At one end stands the knightly figure of Lohengrin, and at the other, on the wall, broods a shaggy buffalo head obtained at the St. Louis World's Fair. An oil painting of Bacchus appropriately surveys this scene from the opposite wall."^[10] The room was named after Diamond Jim Brady, a voracious eater who was referred to by one New York restaurateur as "the best twenty-five customers I ever had".^[26] Brady was not a gangster, as some assumed, but a successful executive and founder of an automobile and railroad rolling stock manufacturer, the Standard Steel Car Company – later merged with Pullman – who had a passion for fancy jewelry. He said, "Each must have a good time in his own way."^[27] Brady's long-time eating companion was the noted actress Lillian Russell,^[28] for whom another room at Lüchow's was named.

Latter years

August Lüchow died in 1923, and ownership of the business passed to Victor Eckstein, who was his nephew-in-law.^[29] Prohibition had begun in 1921, and the restaurant had to survive on the strength of its cooking and traditions. After the first few years, Luchow's stopped celebrating New Year's Day, as the customers who brought their own flasks of alcohol were too rowdy. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Luchow's was the recipient of the first café liquor license in New York City.^[30]

The umlaut in "Lüchow's" was restored in 1950, when Jan Mitchell, an entrepreneur who rescued several New York restaurants – including the Longchamps chain^[9] – bought the restaurant from Eckstein after five years of persuasion.^[31] Mitchell restored the tradition of holding week-long galas such as the annual Venison Festival, Bock Beer Festival, a goose fest, and so on,^[9] but one of the biggest attractions at Lüchow's, and a tremendous customer draw, was the nightly lighting of the Christmas tree,^[31] which began around Thanksgiving and lasted till New Year's.

By the time Lüchow's reached its final iteration on 14th Street, it was owned by one of the two big restaurant conglomerates in New York City at the time, Restaurant Associates,^[32] having passed from the hands of the other, Riese Brothers, a couple of years before.^[33] Over time, the quality of Lüchow's food and service had declined, with stemware abandoned in favor of short glasses, and no tablecloths at lunch, according to employees of the period.^[34]

With completion in 1979 of the final round of refurbishments at 14th Street by Restaurant Associates,^[34] whose principal, Peter Aschkenasy, was friends with Mayor Ed Koch,^[35] providing much needed publicity, the place was seemingly resurrected, and there were a few years of capacity Christmas season business. Architecture students made their weekly visits to view the eclectic bric-a-brac and statuary, stained glass skylights and art nouveau appointments; and it was said that the frequently mentioned "1500 couverts" (pronounced "covers") in one day occurred multiple times.^{[citation needed]}

Demise

By the 1980s, the Union Square area had deteriorated considerably. The park itself was run down and in serious need of refurbishment. The discount S. Klein's department store across the street was closed and abandoned; and the movie theatre next to the restaurant had become a rock concert venue, initially also dubbed the "Academy of Music", but later changed to the "Palladium". There was little left in the neighborhood to attract the type of clientele that Luchow's was intended to appeal to, and in 1982–83 the 14th Street location was abandoned,^[36] dealing a serious blow to efforts to revitalize the neighborhood.^[37] The saleable contents were auctioned off,^[38]^[39] and the business was moved to a spot below street level at 51st Street and Broadway, with the aim of attracting Theater District crowds,^[5] and the umlaut was dropped once again.^[40]

The Theatre District restaurant lasted only a few years longer, but Luchow's lived on at other locations, notably Penn Station.^[41] Restaurant Associates having decided to branch out and make use of the famous name.

After Lüchow's moved out, the 14th Street location was briefly the "Palace", a nightclub-cabaret-restaurant ^[42] and later a gay bar.^[43] An attempt was made to have the building demolished in 1985,^[44] and it stood vacant for several years, never achieving protected landmark status despite local efforts.^[7]^[45] It became the home of various squatters, drug addicts and prostitutes. In 1994, a mysterious fire destroyed any historic remnant of its vibrant past. The city ordered the building demolished.^[46] The building was replaced by University Hall, a New York University dormitory and multi-use complex having retail frontage on 14th Street.^[7] Before the dorm was built, NYU announced plans to "revive" Luchow's by including a street-level "Gay 90's" themed restaurant in the building, which they intended to call "Luchow's" if permission could be obtained to do so,^[47] but these plans never came to fruition.

Music

At the turn of the twentieth century Lüchow's was prospering, and a good part of the bottom line came from beer sales.^[17] Although he was not the first man to serve these fine imported beers in America, he was first to make them popular, a fact attested to by the popular song Harry Von Tilzer wrote to honor August and his restaurant, "Down Where the Würzburger Flows".^[17] "The song traveled from Fourteenth Street to the beer gardens of Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and far beyond, and attained such popularity that August declared in some bewilderment: 'I feel like a kind of beer Columbus!'"^[48]

Victor Herbert was a concert cellist, conductor and composer of forty-three operettas and numerous other choral and instrumental works. He brought an eight-piece orchestra back from Vienna to perform at Lüchow's after one of his tours, and presided as its leader for nearly four years,^[17] starting a musical tradition that carried through to the 1980s.^[49] A corner table with a commemorative plaque was remembered at Lüchow's as the "Victor Herbert Corner" and the place where Herbert and his associates founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1914.^[50]^[51] Songwriter Gus Kahn was another regular at the restaurant; he wrote the lyrics for "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby" there.^[2]

Other works and composers which were featured at Luchow's include the art songs of Richard Strauss or Johannes Brahms, "In a Persian Market" by Albert Ketèlbey, Franz Schubert's "Moments Musicaux" or Schwanengesang, Richard Wagner's "Wesendonck Songs", or Tannhäuser. For comic relief, there was a strolling Oompah Band, the Royal Bavarians, which played songs such as "Lili Marleen", "The Beer Barrel Polka" and Sigmund Romberg's "Heidelberger Trinklied" drinking song from The Student Prince.^[52]

Herbert's and Romberg's Viennese counterpart Franz Lehár and his music, including "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" and the "Merry Widow Waltz" represent the gemütlicher (comfortable and cozy) side of the restaurant's personality. Other musical fare from this branch – The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach and Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, along with the Strauss Waltzes such as "Blue Danube" – made up a good part of the basic Lüchow's repertoire performed by the piano and string ensemble first known as the Vienna Art Strings, or Quartet,^[14] and later as the Victor Herbert Quartet, or Trio.^[53] Also played during the Christmas season were some of the numbers from Herbert's Babes in Toyland, such as "Toyland" and "March of the Toys", as well as pieces from The Nutcracker, and many popular Christmas carols and songs.

Lüchow’s was referenced on The Danny Thomas Show, originally titled “Make Room for Daddy”, in Season 6, episode 23 that aired on March 9, 1959 where Frankie Laine and Annette Funicello also appeared. Danny invited Frankie to potato pancakes at Lüchow’s.

Cuisine

Lüchow's menu was German-oriented throughout its existence, with dishes including Wiener Schnitzel and various wild game. "Knackwurst and Sauerkraut", Bratwurst, red cabbage and beets, Sauerbraten, their still famous Potato pancakes, and pumpernickel bread were perennial staples. Pfannkuchen mit Preiselbeeren (flambéed thin pancakes with lingonberry sauce) and Sachertorte, a recipe borrowed from the famous Sacher Hotel in Vienna, were favorites of the dessert selection. Apparently the German orientation was relaxed somewhat in the years after 1923 when August Lüchow died, putting the restaurant under control of his sister's husband Victor Eckstein.^[29] Even during August Lüchow's lifetime it was necessary to make compromises: during the First World War anti-German sentiment ran so high that by 1917 he thought it prudent to remove the umlaut over the "u" of Lüchow's in all public occurrences of the name.^[9]

Noted guests

Al Smith ^[55]
Sigmund Spaeth ^[55]
Andrew J. Stein ^[57]
William Steinway ^[55]
Richard Strauss ^[55]
Herbert Bayard Swope ^[55]
Lily Tomlin ^[60]
Arturo Toscanini ^[55]
Helen Traubel ^[55]
William Thomas Turner (RMS Lusitania)^[72]
Kurt Vonnegut ^[58]
Robert F. Wagner ^[73]
Lester Walton ^[62]
Jerome Weidman ^[55]
Orson Welles
Henryk Wieniawski ^[55]
Charles W. Yost
Eugène Ysaÿe ^[55]
Florenz Ziegfeld ^[55]
Efrem Zimbalist ^[55]

Literature

Lüchow's appears in many non-fiction and fiction books, including La Bonne Table (1964) by Ludwig Bemelmans, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975) by Judith Rossner, The Anatolian (1982) by Elia Kazan, My Life as Author and Editor (1993, posthumous) by H. L. Mencken, Sidewalk Critic (1998, posthumous) by Lewis Mumford, and The Stories of John Cheever (2011) by John Cheever.

Mencken wrote, "Nathan and I saw him for the last time at lunch at Lüchow's in June 1920. He looked somewhat thin and pasty, but we ascribed his appearance, not to illness, but to the fact that he was drinking tea. Tea in Lüchow's, the citadel of Pilsner!"^[74]

References

Notes

^ Grimes, William (December 3, 2009) "Jan Mitchell, Restaurateur, Dies" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Jackson, Kenneth T. "Luchow's" in Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300055366., p.773
^ ^a ^b Mitchell, p. 25
^ Mitchell, p. 20
^ ^a ^b Fowler, Glenn (March 23, 1982) "Luchow's Moving to Theater District" The New York Times
^ Staff (December 8, 1986) "Foodies Anonymous" New York
^ ^a ^b ^c Lüchow's Archived October 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the New York Preservation Archive
^ Staff (December 10, 1994) "Fire Guts Old Luchow's Building" (photograph) The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Grimes, William (November 30, 2009) "Jan Mitchell, Who Put the "ü" Back in Lüchow's, Dies at 96" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c Mitchell, p. 21
^ Staff (August 22, 1923) "August G. Lüchow, Restaurateur, Dies" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c Mitchell, p. 24
^ Meyer, John H. (January 28, 2011) "Massapequa Getaway for Luchow Family" Archived April 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Massapequan Observer
^ ^a ^b Mitchell, p.26
^ Staff (April 18, 1906) "Farewell to Paderewski" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Huneker, James Gibbons (August 24, 1919) "Musical Memories, Oscar Hammerstein and Dvorak" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mitchell, p. 27
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mitchell, p. 23
^ ^a ^b Dana, Robert W. (April 1957) "Luchow's Restaurant Celebrates 75th Anniversary" in Tips on Tables At the bottom of page is a photo of the view from front wall of Cafe (back wall of barroom) all the way to the back of Nebelungen.
^ Staff (July 16, 1910) "Huber's Museum Closes its Doors" The New York Times
^ "DAILY MENU [held by] LUCHOWS PAN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT CO. [at] "PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION, BUFFALO, NY GERMAN VILLAGE" (REST;)".
^ Landgraf, Greg (June 19, 2007) "A Centennial Blog: Meet Me at the Fair" Archived October 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine American Libraries
^ ^a ^b Mitchell, p. 22
^ Mitchell, p. 12
^ One room was lined with animal heads; another displayed a collection of beer steins.
^ Maeder, Jay (1998) "Plenty: The Fabulous Diamond Jim Brady, 1912" in Big Town Big Time, A New York Epic, 1898–1998, New York: Daily News Books. p.37
^ Staff (April 14, 1917) "Diamond Jim Brady Dies While Asleep" The New York Times
^ Jeffers, Harry Paul (2001) Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age, New York: Wiley. p.4
^ ^a ^b Mitchell, p. 29
^ Mitchell, p. 30
^ ^a ^b Mitchell, p. 34
^ Staff (June 29, 1979) "Luchow's Restaurant is Sold to Aschkenasy" The New York Times
^ Hammer, Alexander R. (September 29, 1971) "Longchamps to Sell Luchow's and 4 Others for $8-Million" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b Sheraton, Mimi (November 16, 1979) "Restaurants: Luchow's" The New York Times
^ Haberman, Clyde (March 30, 1982) "Panel Considers Citing Luchow's as a Landmark" The New York Times
^ Fowler, Glenn (March 23, 1982) "Luchow's Moving to Theater District" The New York Times
^ Staff (March 28, 1982) "14th St. Upgrading Dealt Blow by Luchow's Move" The New York Times
^ Krebs, Albin and Thomas, Richard G. Jr. (October 9, 1981) "Notes on People" The New York Times
^ Reif, Rita (October 23, 1981) "Auctions" The New York Times
^ Staff (August 3, 1982) "Topics: Pronouncements: Two Little Dots" (editorial) The New York Times
^ McFaddon, Robert (December 22, 1980) "Two Bombs Go Off in Penn Station..." The New York Times
^ Staff (September 20, 1982) "Nightclubs" New York
^ "Then & Now: From Luchow's German Restaurant to NYU Dorm". August 2, 2023.
^ Anderson, Susan Helen and Dunlap, David W. (August 28, 1985) "New York Day by Day: Demolition Request for Old Luchow's" The New York Times
^ Staff (September 19, 1982) "Owners of Luchow Building Fight Landmark Designation" The New York Times
^ "Lüchow's | The New York Preservation Archive Project". October 6, 2011. Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
^ Staff (January 23, 1997) "N.Y.U. Plans a Revival of Luchow's" The New York Times
^ Mitchell, p. 28
^ Staff (December 31, 1981) "Dining and Dancing Through the Night" The New York Times
^ Mitchell, p.129
^ Staff (August 2, 1978) "A Restaurant Dress List" The New York Times
^ Mitchell, p. 136
^ Staff (December 31, 1981) "Dining and Dancing Through the Night" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Staff (September 9, 1955) "Hugo Schemke, Waiter at Luchow's, Dies" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba ^bb Mitchell, passim
^ Staff (December 20, 1978) "Cardinal Finds an Ad Personally Indigestible" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Haberman, Clyde and Krebs, Albin (November 23, 1978) "Notes on People" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c Klemesrud, Judy (November 20, 1981) "The Evening Hours" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Staff (November 11, 1965) "Julius Richter, Violinist, Dead; Played for diners at Luchow's" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Duka, John (November 16, 1980) "Notes on Fashion" The New York Times
^ Grimes, Ellen R. (November 11, 1977) "Now In New York" The New York Times
^ ^a ^b Du Bois, W. E. B. (1976) "The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois Volume II: Selections, 1934–1944", Herbet Aptheker (ed.) Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p.134
^ Staff (December 16, 1956) "Ernst Seute, Luchow's Official, Is Dead" The New York Times
^ Phillips, McCandlish (October 15, 1956) "Javits Campaigns in Boyhood Area" The New York Times
^ Norwich, William (April 18, 2004) "Style: Gentlemen Prefer Maggie" The New York Times Magazine
^ ^a ^b Nemy, Enid (October 31, 1979) "It Was Not a Night Meant For Staying Home by the Fire" The New York Times
^ Fabricant, Florence (October 8, 2003) "Food Stuff: LeRoy Neiman Dined Here With Pen and Fork" The New York Times
^ Donavan, Robert J. (April 25, 1965) "Over Nominated, Under Elected, Still a Promising Candidate" The New York Times
^ Berg, Andrew Scott (1978). Max Perkins, Editor of Genius. Dutton. ISBN 0525154272. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
^ Price, Mary and Vincent (1965) A Treasury of Great Recipes, p.237
^ "Limelight Show" (June 26, 1965)
^ Capt. Turner dined in the Nibelungen Room on the eve of the RMS Lusitania's final voyage. Larson, Erik (2015). Dead Wake. p. Lusitania:Menagerie 9.
^ Associated Press (December 9, 1955) "World Concerts Honor Sibelius" The New York Times
^ Mencken, H. L. (1993). My Life as Author and Editor. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0679413154. Retrieved March 26, 2017.

Bibliography

Mitchell, Jan, Lüchow's German Cookbook, Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1952, 1986

External links

Media related to Luchow's Restaurant at Wikimedia Commons

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[1] Grimes, William (December 3, 2009) "Jan Mitchell, Restaurateur, Dies" The New York Times

[encnyc-2] Jackson, Kenneth T. "Luchow's" in Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300055366., p.773

[Mitchell25-3] Mitchell, p. 25

[4] Mitchell, p. 20

[Fowler-5] Fowler, Glenn (March 23, 1982) "Luchow's Moving to Theater District" The New York Times

[6] Staff (December 8, 1986) "Foodies Anonymous" New York

[nypap1-7] Lüchow's Archived October 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the New York Preservation Archive

[8] Staff (December 10, 1994) "Fire Guts Old Luchow's Building" (photograph) The New York Times

[whoput-9] Grimes, William (November 30, 2009) "Jan Mitchell, Who Put the "ü" Back in Lüchow's, Dies at 96" The New York Times

[Mitchell21-10] Mitchell, p. 21

[11] Staff (August 22, 1923) "August G. Lüchow, Restaurateur, Dies" The New York Times

[Mitchell24-12] Mitchell, p. 24

[13] Meyer, John H. (January 28, 2011) "Massapequa Getaway for Luchow Family" Archived April 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Massapequan Observer

[Mitchell26-14] Mitchell, p.26

[15] Staff (April 18, 1906) "Farewell to Paderewski" The New York Times

[Huneker1919-16] Huneker, James Gibbons (August 24, 1919) "Musical Memories, Oscar Hammerstein and Dvorak" The New York Times

[Mitchell27-17] Mitchell, p. 27

[Mitchell86-18] Mitchell, p. 23

[tipsontables1957-19] Dana, Robert W. (April 1957) "Luchow's Restaurant Celebrates 75th Anniversary" in Tips on Tables At the bottom of page is a photo of the view from front wall of Cafe (back wall of barroom) all the way to the back of Nebelungen.

[20] Staff (July 16, 1910) "Huber's Museum Closes its Doors" The New York Times

[21] "DAILY MENU [held by] LUCHOWS PAN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT CO. [at] "PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION, BUFFALO, NY GERMAN VILLAGE" (REST;)".

[22] Landgraf, Greg (June 19, 2007) "A Centennial Blog: Meet Me at the Fair" Archived October 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine American Libraries

[Mitchell22-23] Mitchell, p. 22

[24] Mitchell, p. 12

[25] One room was lined with animal heads; another displayed a collection of beer steins.

[26] Maeder, Jay (1998) "Plenty: The Fabulous Diamond Jim Brady, 1912" in Big Town Big Time, A New York Epic, 1898–1998, New York: Daily News Books. p.37

[nytimes1917-27] Staff (April 14, 1917) "Diamond Jim Brady Dies While Asleep" The New York Times

[28] Jeffers, Harry Paul (2001) Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age, New York: Wiley. p.4

[Mitchell29-29] Mitchell, p. 29

[30] Mitchell, p. 30

[Mitchell34-31] Mitchell, p. 34

[32] Staff (June 29, 1979) "Luchow's Restaurant is Sold to Aschkenasy" The New York Times

[33] Hammer, Alexander R. (September 29, 1971) "Longchamps to Sell Luchow's and 4 Others for $8-Million" The New York Times

[mimi-34] Sheraton, Mimi (November 16, 1979) "Restaurants: Luchow's" The New York Times

[35] Haberman, Clyde (March 30, 1982) "Panel Considers Citing Luchow's as a Landmark" The New York Times

[36] Fowler, Glenn (March 23, 1982) "Luchow's Moving to Theater District" The New York Times

[37] Staff (March 28, 1982) "14th St. Upgrading Dealt Blow by Luchow's Move" The New York Times

[38] Krebs, Albin and Thomas, Richard G. Jr. (October 9, 1981) "Notes on People" The New York Times

[39] Reif, Rita (October 23, 1981) "Auctions" The New York Times

[40] Staff (August 3, 1982) "Topics: Pronouncements: Two Little Dots" (editorial) The New York Times

[41] McFaddon, Robert (December 22, 1980) "Two Bombs Go Off in Penn Station..." The New York Times

[42] Staff (September 20, 1982) "Nightclubs" New York

[43] "Then & Now: From Luchow's German Restaurant to NYU Dorm". August 2, 2023.

[44] Anderson, Susan Helen and Dunlap, David W. (August 28, 1985) "New York Day by Day: Demolition Request for Old Luchow's" The New York Times

[45] Staff (September 19, 1982) "Owners of Luchow Building Fight Landmark Designation" The New York Times

[46] "Lüchow's | The New York Preservation Archive Project". October 6, 2011. Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2023.

[47] Staff (January 23, 1997) "N.Y.U. Plans a Revival of Luchow's" The New York Times

[Mitchell28-48] Mitchell, p. 28

[49] Staff (December 31, 1981) "Dining and Dancing Through the Night" The New York Times

[50] Mitchell, p.129

[51] Staff (August 2, 1978) "A Restaurant Dress List" The New York Times

[52] Mitchell, p. 136

[53] Staff (December 31, 1981) "Dining and Dancing Through the Night" The New York Times

[nytsep9-54] Staff (September 9, 1955) "Hugo Schemke, Waiter at Luchow's, Dies" The New York Times

[mitchell-55] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba ^bb Mitchell, passim

[56] Staff (December 20, 1978) "Cardinal Finds an Ad Personally Indigestible" The New York Times

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[nytnov20-58] Klemesrud, Judy (November 20, 1981) "The Evening Hours" The New York Times

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+{{Short description|Defunct restaurant in Manhattan, New York}}
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+[[File:PXL 20230910 180245243~2.jpg|thumb|Caption from postcard: 80th Anniversary. Renowned for its superb food, imported beers, and fine wines, Luchow's, The Gourmets' Rendezvous Since 1882, continues to be the favorite eating place of the world's celebrities. Open every day except Monday.]]
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-[[File:Luchow's Postcard Cropped.jpg|thumb|375px|Luchow's ca. 1902: "Garden" as seen from "Cafe" showing the effect created by skylights added in the extensive 1902 construction. The big arched opening at the rear is actually a mirror. Gaslights are shown. To the left is the door where the headwaiter stood. Within, right, is the office, later a semi-private dining room.]]
+[[File:Luchow's Postcard Cropped.jpg|thumb|375px|Luchow's {{ca.|1902}}: "Garden" as seen from "Cafe" showing the effect created by skylights added in the extensive 1902 construction. The big arched opening at the rear is actually a mirror. Gaslights are shown. To the left is the door where the headwaiter stood. Within, right, is the office, later a semi-private dining room.]]
-'''Lüchow's''' (1882–1983) was a restaurant located at 110 [[14th Street (Manhattan)|East 14th Street]] at [[Irving Place]] in [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]] (near [[Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square]]) in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], with the property running clear through the block to [[13th Street (Manhattan)|13th Street]]. It was established in 1882<ref>Grimes, William (December 3, 2009) [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/nyregion/03mitchell.html "Jan Mitchell, Restaurateur, Dies"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> – at a time when the surrounding neighborhood was primarily residential<ref name=encnyc>Jackson, Kenneth T. "Luchow's" in {{cite enc-nyc}}, p.773</ref> – when a German immigrant, August Lüchow, purchased the cafe where he worked as a bartender and waiter.<ref name=Mitchell25>Mitchell, p. 25</ref> Lüchow's remained in operation at this place for a full century, becoming a favorite establishment for people in the entertainment world, helped by its proximity to the [[Academy of Music (New York City)|Academy of Music]], the city's opera house, as well as  [[Steinway Hall]] and [[Tammany Hall]], where other entertainment was offered.<ref name=encnyc />
+'''Lüchow's''' was a restaurant at 110 [[14th Street (Manhattan)|East 14th Street]] at [[Irving Place]] in [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]] (near [[Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square]]) in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], with the property running clear through the block to [[13th Street (Manhattan)|13th Street]]. It was established in 1882<ref>Grimes, William (December 3, 2009) [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/nyregion/03mitchell.html "Jan Mitchell, Restaurateur, Dies"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> – at a time when the surrounding neighborhood was primarily residential<ref name=encnyc>Jackson, Kenneth T. "Luchow's" in {{cite enc-nyc}}, p.773</ref> – when a German immigrant, August Lüchow, purchased the cafe where he worked as a bartender and waiter.<ref name=Mitchell25>Mitchell, p. 25</ref> Lüchow's remained in operation at this place for a full century, becoming a favorite establishment for people in the entertainment world, helped by its proximity to the [[Academy of Music (New York City)|Academy of Music]], the city's opera house, as well as  [[Steinway Hall]] and [[Tammany Hall]], where other entertainment was offered.<ref name=encnyc />
-Although in the 1930s columnist [[O. O. McIntyre]] had written "In a changing world, nothing changes at Lüchow's", eventually even the long-running establishment came to an end,<ref>Mitchell, p. 20</ref> closing after an attempt to stimulate business in 1982 by moving to the [[Theater District, Manhattan|Theater District]].<ref name=Fowler>Fowler, Glenn (March 23, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/23/nyregion/luchow-s-moving-to-theater-district.html?scp=14&sq=luchow%27s&st=nyt "Luchow's Moving to Theater District"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>  This new effort failed and ended in 1984,<ref name=encnyc /> leaving behind satellite locations which closed permanently in May 1986.<ref>Staff (December 8, 1986) [https://books.google.com/books?id=necCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=luchow's+closes&source=bl&ots=rLG-Vt67ub&sig=YPDqMvzLB9IACDEMrnlV8fw7TFM&hl=en&ei=eQdMTsLGCsjDgQekypVz&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFkQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false "Foodies Anonymous"] ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''</ref> The 14th Street building was finally demolished in 1995<ref name="nypap1" /> after being gutted by a fire the year before.<ref>Staff (December 10, 1994) [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/10/nyregion/fire-guts-old-luchow-s-building.html "Fire Guts Old Luchow's Building" (photograph)] ''[[The New York Times]]'' </ref>
+Although in the 1930s columnist [[O. O. McIntyre]] had written "In a changing world, nothing changes at Lüchow's", eventually even the long-running establishment came to an end,<ref>Mitchell, p. 20</ref> closing after an attempt to stimulate business in 1982 by moving to the [[Theater District, Manhattan|Theater District]].<ref name="Fowler">Fowler, Glenn (March 23, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/23/nyregion/luchow-s-moving-to-theater-district.html?scp=14&sq=luchow%27s&st=nyt "Luchow's Moving to Theater District"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>  This new effort failed and ended in 1984,<ref name=encnyc /> leaving behind satellite locations which closed permanently in May 1986.<ref>Staff (December 8, 1986) [https://books.google.com/books?id=necCAAAAMBAJ&dq=luchow's+closes&pg=PA42 "Foodies Anonymous"] ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''</ref> The 14th Street building was finally demolished in 1995<ref name="nypap1" /> after being gutted by a fire the year before.<ref>Staff (December 10, 1994) [https://web.archive.org/web/20150123170600/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/10/nyregion/fire-guts-old-luchow-s-building.html "Fire Guts Old Luchow's Building" (photograph)] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 ==Pronunciation==
-The German name Lüchow is pronounced lü'-kōv, with the "v" almost silent. The restaurant's name has generally been pronounced lū'-chauz, just as an English speaking person would expect on seeing it.  The umlaut was left out between 1917 and 1950,<ref name=whoput /> which is said to have caused difficulties: "The absence of the umlaut had led many new customers to believe that the place was a Chinese restaurant," according to ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name=whoput/>
+The German name {{lang|de|Lüchow}} is pronounced {{IPA|de|ˈlyːçoː|}} with the {{angbr|w}} being silent. The restaurant's name has generally been pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|uː|tʃ|aʊ|z}} {{respell|LOO|chowz}}, an [[Anglicization]]. The [[Umlaut (diacritic)|umlaut]] over the {{angbr|ü}} was left out between 1917 and 1950,<ref name=whoput /> which is said to have caused difficulties: "The absence of the umlaut had led many new customers to believe that the place was a Chinese restaurant," according to ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name=whoput/>
 ==History==
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+ |quote=Through the doors of Luchow's pass all the famous people of the world.
+ |source= —Legend seen on entering the main reception room,<br>originally said by [[James Montgomery Flagg]]<ref name=Mitchell21>Mitchell, p. 21</ref>
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+August Guido Lüchow immigrated from [[Hanover]], Germany, to the United States in 1879, at the age of 23.<ref>Staff (August 22, 1923) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30817FD3D5D15738DDDAB0A94D0405B838EF1D3&scp=39&sq=luchow%27s&st=p "August G. Lüchow, Restaurateur, Dies"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>  After working as waiter for a cafe on Duane Street, he became a bartender and waiter at a cafe and beer garden belonging to Baron von Mehlbach.<ref name=Mitchell24 /> Three years later, he was able to purchase the business with the help of a $1500 loan from [[William Steinway]], the piano magnate,<ref name=Mitchell25 /> whose [[Steinway Hall]] venue was across the street at Union Square, and who was a regular customer at the von Mehlbach establishment.<ref name=Mitchell24>Mitchell, p. 24</ref>  The property was only about an eighth in size of what would become Lüchow's, and did not yet reach 13th Street on the downtown side.<ref name=Mitchell24 />
-===Context===
+At that time the stretch of 14th Street extending crosstown on either side of Union Square was at the heart of the most prestigious part of the city, and August Lüchow's new establishment quickly became known as "the capital of 14th Street".<ref>Meyer, John H. (January 28, 2011) [http://www.antonnews.com/massapequanobserver/news/13135-massapequa-getaway-for-luchow-family.html "Massapequa Getaway for Luchow Family"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403024829/http://www.antonnews.com/massapequanobserver/news/13135-massapequa-getaway-for-luchow-family.html |date=April 3, 2012 }} ''Massapequan Observer''</ref>
-August Guido Lüchow, an immigrant from the city of [[Hanover]], Germany, arrived in the United States in 1879 at the age of 23.<ref>Staff (August 22, 1923) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30817FD3D5D15738DDDAB0A94D0405B838EF1D3&scp=39&sq=luchow%27s&st=p "August G. Lüchow, Restaurateur, Dies"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>  After working as waiter for a cafe on [[Duane Street (Manhattan)|Duane Street]], he became a bartender and waiter at a cafe and beer garden belonging to Baron von Mehlbach.<ref name=Mitchell24 />  Just a few years later, at the age of 26, he was able to purchase the business with the help of a $1500 loan from [[William Steinway]], the piano magnate,<ref name=Mitchell25 /> who had his concert-hall-and-showrooms venue [[Steinway Hall]] across the street at Union Square, and was a regular customer at the von Mehlbach establishment.<ref name=Mitchell24>Mitchell, p. 24</ref>  The property was only about an eighth in size of what would become Lüchow's, and did not yet reach 13th Street on the downtown side.<ref name=Mitchell24 />
+{{Multiple image
-At that time the stretch of 14th Street extending crosstown on either side of Union Square was at the heart of the most prestigious part of the city, and August Lüchow's new establishment quickly became known as "the capital of 14th Street".<ref>Meyer, John H. (January 28, 2011) [http://www.antonnews.com/massapequanobserver/news/13135-massapequa-getaway-for-luchow-family.html "Massapequa Getaway for Luchow Family"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403024829/http://www.antonnews.com/massapequanobserver/news/13135-massapequa-getaway-for-luchow-family.html |date=April 3, 2012 }} ''Massapequan Observer'' </ref>
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+|image1=William Steinway - cropped version.jpg
+|caption1=[[William Steinway]] has been called the "patron saint" of Lüchow's<ref name=Mitchell26 />
+|image2=Diamond Jim Brady Cropped.jpg
+|caption2=[[Diamond Jim Brady]] was a ''habitué'' of the restaurant ...
+|image3=Lillian Russell, 1897.png
+|caption3=... and had noted actress [[Lillian Russell]] as his eating companion
+}}
+Steinway and his circle of touring and transplanted European musicians comprised Lüchow's core clientele during the early years. A pre-sailing farewell engagement at Lüchow's in honor of the pianist [[Ignaz Paderewski]] – which lasted six hours – is noted by ''[[The New York Times]]'' in 1906.<ref>Staff (April 18, 1906) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F16FA355515738DDDA10994DC405B8685F0D3 "Farewell to Paderewski"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> [[James Huneker]], writing for the ''Times'' in 1919,<ref name="Huneker1919" /> describes how he was called upon in the 1890s to introduce [[Antonín Dvořák]] – who is referred to  as "Old [[Twenty Mule Team Borax|Borax]]" – to New York society by founder of the [[National Conservatory of Music of America|National Conservatory]] Jeanette Myers Thurber, who had engaged the composer to lead her nascent musical institution: "Later we went down to Gus Lüchow's. For a musician not to be seen at Lüchow's argued that he was unknown in the social world of tone." Huneker also relates several anecdotes about [[Oscar Hammerstein II|Oscar Hammerstein]], another Lüchow's regular.<ref name="Huneker1919"/>
-[[File:William Steinway - cropped version.jpg|thumb|right|175px|[[William Steinway]] has been called the "patron saint" of Lüchow's<ref name=Mitchell26 />]]
-[[Image:Diamond Jim Brady Cropped.jpg|thumb|right|175px|[[Diamond Jim Brady]] was a ''habitué'' of the restaurant...]]
-[[File:Lillian Russell, 1897.png|thumb|175px|right|... and had noted actress [[Lillian Russell]] as his eating companion]]
-Steinway and his circle of touring and transplanted European musicians comprised Lüchow's core clientele during the early years. A pre-sailing farewell engagement at Lüchow's in honor of the pianist [[Ignaz Paderewski]] – which lasted six hours – is noted by ''[[The New York Times]]'' in 1906.<ref>Staff (April 18, 1906) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F16FA355515738DDDA10994DC405B8685F0D3 "Farewell to Paderewski"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> [[James Huneker]], writing for the ''Times'' in 1919,<ref name="Huneker1919" /> describes how he was called upon in the 1890s to introduce [[Antonín Dvořák]] – who is referred to  as "Old [[Twenty Mule Team Borax|Borax]]" – to New York society by founder of the [[National Conservatory of Music of America|National Conservatory]] Jeanette Myers Thurber, who had engaged the composer to lead her nascent musical institution: "Later we went down to Gus Lüchow's. For a musician not to be seen at Lüchow's argued that he was unknown in the social world of tone." Huneker aslso relates several anecdotes about [[Oscar Hammerstein II|Oscar Hammerstein]], another Lüchow's ''habitué''.<ref name="Huneker1919"/>
 ===Early operation===
-By 1885 Lüchow had become the American agent for [[Würzburger Hofbräu|Würzburger Beer]] and shortly thereafter for [[Pilsner]],<ref name=Mitchell27>Mitchell, p. 27</ref> another famous brand, made with soft water. Space was at a premium, and so the beer garden located behind the original restaurant on the east was made to provide access to a newly purchased lot extending back to 13th Street, on which stables were built to enable delivery of beer throughout the city.<ref name="Mitchell86" /> In 1902 further construction was undertaken,<ref name="tipsontables1957">Dana, Robert W. (April 1957) [http://www.tipsontables.com/Luchows.html "Luchow's Restaurant Celebrates 75th Anniversary"] in ''Tips on Tables'' At the bottom of page is a photo of the view from front wall of Cafe (back wall of barroom) all the way to the back of Nebelungen.</ref> converting the stables, beer garden, and another large space behind the bar on the west into three ornate dark-panelled rooms, two of which had 30' ceilings – with frosted skylights with etched stained glass. These became known as the "[[Heidelberg]] Room" – still being called "the New Room" eighty years later,<ref name="Mitchell86">Mitchell, p. 23</ref> "Garden" – because it occupied the location of the original beer garden – and "Cafe", respectively. With the purchase in 1910 of the Huber Museum property at 106 East 14th Street<ref>Staff (July 16, 1910) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00D11FD395D11738DDDAF0994DF405B808DF1D3 "Huber's Museum Closes its Doors"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> the restaurant's physical layout took its final form, allowing the addition of two more public rooms: Hunting, and [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Nibelungen]].
+By 1885 Lüchow had become the American agent for [[Würzburger Hofbräu|Würzburger Beer]] and shortly thereafter for [[Pilsner]],<ref name=Mitchell27>Mitchell, p. 27</ref> another famous brand, made with soft water. Space was at a premium, and so the beer garden located behind the original restaurant on the east was made to provide access to a newly purchased lot extending back to 13th Street, on which stables were built to enable delivery of beer throughout the city.<ref name="Mitchell86" /> In 1902 further construction was undertaken,<ref name="tipsontables1957">Dana, Robert W. (April 1957) [http://www.tipsontables.com/Luchows.html "Luchow's Restaurant Celebrates 75th Anniversary"] in ''Tips on Tables'' At the bottom of page is a photo of the view from front wall of Cafe (back wall of barroom) all the way to the back of Nebelungen.</ref> converting the stables, beer garden, and another large space behind the bar on the west into three ornate dark-paneled rooms, two of which had {{convert|30|ft|m|adj=on}} ceilings – with frosted skylights with etched stained glass. These became known as the "[[Heidelberg]] Room" – still being called "the New Room" eighty years later,<ref name="Mitchell86">Mitchell, p. 23</ref> "Garden" – because it occupied the location of the original beer garden – and "Cafe", respectively. With the purchase in 1910 of the Huber Museum property at 106 East 14th Street<ref>Staff (July 16, 1910) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00D11FD395D11738DDDAF0994DF405B808DF1D3 "Huber's Museum Closes its Doors"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> the restaurant's physical layout took its final form, allowing the addition of two more public rooms: Hunting, and [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Nibelungen]].  The restaurant opened a satellite restaurant at the 1901 [[Pan-American Exposition]] held in [[Buffalo, NY]], as part of its German Village ("Alt Nürnberg").<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-6f15-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99#/?uuid=510d47db-6f15-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99|title = DAILY MENU &#91;held by&#93; LUCHOWS PAN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT CO. &#91;at&#93; "PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION, BUFFALO, NY GERMAN VILLAGE" (REST;)}}</ref>
-The Heidelberg Room featured the enormous 7'x10' painting of ''The Potato Gatherers'' by Swedish artist [[August Hagborg]], that Lüchow had purchased at the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|St. Louis World's Fair]] in 1904, when he was there to run the food concession for the Tyrolean Alps Exhibit.<ref name="tipsontables1957"/> The painting was still to be found in its place at the back of the New Room in 1980<ref name="Mitchell86"/> – near the 13th Street entrance.<ref>Landgraf, Greg (June 19, 2007) [http://blogs.ala.org/AL100.php?cat=375 "A Centennial Blog: Meet Me at the Fair"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001224623/http://blogs.ala.org/AL100.php?cat=375 |date=October 1, 2011 }} ''[[American Libraries]]''</ref> Also prominent in the Heidelberg Room was an extremely large model of the four masted clipper ship [[Great Republic]]<ref name="Mitchell86" /> which was visible from the majority of tables in the six main rooms, in addition to numerous "small masterpieces of the Dutch, Austrian and Flemish schools".<ref name=Mitchell22>Mitchell, p. 22</ref> Multitudes of mounted animal heads<ref>Mitchell, p. 12</ref> and colorful beer steins having German and Austrian geographical significance – of varied and sometimes extreme size – were displayed throughout the room.<ref name=Mitchell21/> The Hunting (or Hunt) Room – where, as latter-day owner Jan Mitchell once observed<ref name=Mitchell22/> "twenty-one mounted deer heads gaze in blank nonchalance upon the pleasant spectacle of their descendants being eaten with considerable satisfaction" – was especially prolific in regard to taxidermy, and provided a few big tables to accommodate the larger parties of guests within the public rooms.
+The Heidelberg Room featured a large painting of ''The Potato Gatherers'' by Swedish artist [[August Hagborg]], that Lüchow had purchased at the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|St. Louis World's Fair]] in 1904, when he was there to run the food concession for the Tyrolean Alps Exhibit.<ref name="tipsontables1957"/> The painting was still to be found in its place at the back of the New Room in 1980<ref name="Mitchell86"/> – near the 13th Street entrance.<ref>Landgraf, Greg (June 19, 2007) [http://blogs.ala.org/AL100.php?cat=375 "A Centennial Blog: Meet Me at the Fair"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001224623/http://blogs.ala.org/AL100.php?cat=375 |date=October 1, 2011 }} ''[[American Libraries]]''</ref> Also prominent in the Heidelberg Room was an extremely large model of the four masted clipper ship [[Great Republic]]<ref name="Mitchell86" /> which was visible from the majority of tables in the six main rooms, in addition to numerous "small masterpieces of the Dutch, Austrian and Flemish schools".<ref name=Mitchell22>Mitchell, p. 22</ref> Multitudes of mounted animal heads<ref>Mitchell, p. 12</ref> and colorful beer steins having German and Austrian geographical significance – of varied and sometimes extreme size – were displayed throughout the room.<ref name=Mitchell21/><ref>One room was lined with animal heads; another displayed a collection of beer steins.</ref> The Hunting (or Hunt) Room – where, as latter-day owner Jan Mitchell once observed<ref name=Mitchell22/> "twenty-one mounted deer heads gaze in blank nonchalance upon the pleasant spectacle of their descendants being eaten with considerable satisfaction" – was especially prolific in regard to taxidermy, and provided a few big tables to accommodate the larger parties of guests within the public rooms.
-The [[art nouveau]] "Diamond Jim Brady Room" was fitted out with matching cabinetry appointments and [[Tiffany glass]], with arched mirrors of beveled glass and cut flowers across an expanse of marble and dark carved mahogany: "At one end stands the knightly figure of [[Lohengrin]], and at the other, on the wall, broods a shaggy buffalo head obtained at the St. Louis World's Fair. An oil painting of [[Bacchus]] appropriately surveys this scene from the opposite wall."<ref name=Mitchell21/> The room was named after  [[Diamond Jim Brady]], a voracious eater who was referred to by one New York restaurateur as "the best twenty-five customers I ever had".<ref>Maeder, Jay (1998) [https://books.google.com/books?id=29R4MyhnVb4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=diamond%20jim%20best%2025%20customers&f=false "Plenty: The Fabulous Diamond Jim Brady, 1912"] in ''Big Town Big Time, A New York Epic, 1898–1998'', New York: Daily News Books. p.37</ref> Brady was not a gangster, as some assumed, but a successful executive and founder of an automobile and railroad rolling stock manufacturer, the [[Standard Steel Car Company]] – later merged with [[Pullman Company|Pullman]] – who had a passion for fancy jewelry. He said, "Each must have a good time in his own way."<ref name="nytimes1917">Staff (April 14, 1917) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40E1FFC3E5E11738DDDAD0994DC405B878DF1D3 "Diamond Jim Brady Dies While Asleep"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Brady's long-time eating companion was the noted actress [[Lillian Russell]],<ref>Jeffers, Harry Paul (2001) [https://books.google.com/books?id=feN7knWQUwwC&lpg=PP1&dq=Diamond%20Jim%20Brady%3A%20Prince%20of%20the%20Gilded%20Age&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=Lillian%20Russell%20companion&f=false ''Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age''], New York: Wiley. p.4</ref> for whom another room at Lüchow's was named.
+The [[Art Nouveau]] "Diamond Jim Brady Room" was fitted out with matching cabinetry appointments and [[Tiffany glass]], with arched mirrors of beveled glass and cut flowers across an expanse of marble and dark carved mahogany: "At one end stands the knightly figure of [[Lohengrin]], and at the other, on the wall, broods a shaggy buffalo head obtained at the St. Louis World's Fair. An oil painting of [[Bacchus]] appropriately surveys this scene from the opposite wall."<ref name=Mitchell21/> The room was named after  [[Diamond Jim Brady]], a voracious eater who was referred to by one New York restaurateur as "the best twenty-five customers I ever had".<ref>Maeder, Jay (1998) [https://books.google.com/books?id=29R4MyhnVb4C&q=diamond+jim+best+25+customers "Plenty: The Fabulous Diamond Jim Brady, 1912"] in ''Big Town Big Time, A New York Epic, 1898–1998'', New York: Daily News Books. p.37</ref> Brady was not a gangster, as some assumed, but a successful executive and founder of an automobile and railroad rolling stock manufacturer, the [[Standard Steel Car Company]] – later merged with [[Pullman Company|Pullman]] – who had a passion for fancy jewelry. He said, "Each must have a good time in his own way."<ref name="nytimes1917">Staff (April 14, 1917) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40E1FFC3E5E11738DDDAD0994DC405B878DF1D3 "Diamond Jim Brady Dies While Asleep"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Brady's long-time eating companion was the noted actress [[Lillian Russell]],<ref>Jeffers, Harry Paul (2001) [https://books.google.com/books?id=feN7knWQUwwC&q=Lillian+Russell+companion&pg=PA4 ''Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age''], New York: Wiley. p.4</ref> for whom another room at Lüchow's was named.
 ===Latter years===
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 August Lüchow died in 1923, and ownership of the business passed to Victor Eckstein, who was his nephew-in-law.<ref name=Mitchell29 /> [[Prohibition]] had begun in 1921, and the restaurant had to survive on the strength of its cooking and traditions. After the first few years, Luchow's stopped celebrating [[New Year's Day]], as the customers who brought their own flasks of alcohol were too rowdy.  When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Luchow's was the recipient of the first café liquor license in New York City.<ref>Mitchell, p. 30</ref>
-The ''umlaut'' in "Lüchow's" was restored in 1950, when Jan Mitchell, an entrepreneur who rescued several New York restaurants – including the [[Longchamps (chain of restaurants)|Longchamps]] chain<ref name=whoput /> – bought the restaurant from Eckstein after five years of persuasion.<ref name=Mitchell34/> Mitchell restored the tradition of holding week-long galas such as the annual [[Venison]] Festival, [[Bock|Bock Beer]] Festival, a goose fest, and so on,<ref name=whoput/> but one of the biggest attractions at Lüchow's, and a tremendous customer draw, was the nightly lighting of the Christmas tree,<ref name=Mitchell34>Mitchell, p. 34</ref> which began around [[Thanksgiving]] and lasted till [[New Year's Day|New Year's]].
+The umlaut in "Lüchow's" was restored in 1950, when Jan Mitchell, an entrepreneur who rescued several New York restaurants – including the [[Longchamps (chain of restaurants)|Longchamps]] chain<ref name=whoput /> – bought the restaurant from Eckstein after five years of persuasion.<ref name=Mitchell34/> Mitchell restored the tradition of holding week-long galas such as the annual [[Venison]] Festival, [[Bock|Bock Beer]] Festival, a goose fest, and so on,<ref name=whoput/> but one of the biggest attractions at Lüchow's, and a tremendous customer draw, was the nightly lighting of the Christmas tree,<ref name=Mitchell34>Mitchell, p. 34</ref> which began around [[Thanksgiving]] and lasted till [[New Year's Day|New Year's]].
-By the time Lüchow's reached its final iteration on 14th Street, it was owned by one of the two big restaurant conglomerates in New York City at the time, [[Joe Baum#Restaurant Associates|Restaurant Associates]],<ref>Staff (June 29, 1979) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C1EFE395D12728DDDA90A94DE405B898BF1D3&scp=20&sq=luchow%27s&st=p "Luchow's Restaurant is Sold to Aschkenasy"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> having passed from the hands of the other, Riese Brothers, a couple of years before.<ref>Hammer, Alexander R. (September 29, 1971) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0615FA345B1A7493CBAB1782D85F458785F9 "Longchamps to Sell Luchow's and 4 Others for $8-Million"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Riese Brothers is a restaurant management company, with such names as [[Schrafft's]], [[Longchamps (chain of restaurants)|Longchamps]], [[Chock Full o' Nuts]] and [[Childs Restaurants|Childs]] figuring prominently in their real estate-oriented business formula.<ref>[http://www.rieserestaurants.com/corphistory.html The Riese Organization – Company History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123190211/http://www.rieserestaurants.com/corphistory.html |date=November 23, 2011 }}</ref> Over time the quality of Lüchow's food and service had taken a turn for the worse, with stemware abandoned in favor of short glasses, and no tablecloths at lunch, according to employees of the period.<ref name=mimi>Sheraton, Mimi (November 16, 1979) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60610FC385A12728DDDAF0994D9415B898BF1D3&scp=16&sq=luchow%27s&st=p "Restaurants: Luchow's"] ''[[The New York Times]] </ref>
+By the time Lüchow's reached its final iteration on 14th Street, it was owned by one of the two big restaurant conglomerates in New York City at the time, [[Joe Baum#Restaurant Associates|Restaurant Associates]],<ref>Staff (June 29, 1979) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C1EFE395D12728DDDA90A94DE405B898BF1D3&scp=20&sq=luchow%27s&st=p "Luchow's Restaurant is Sold to Aschkenasy"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> having passed from the hands of the other, [[The Riese Organization|Riese Brothers]], a couple of years before.<ref>Hammer, Alexander R. (September 29, 1971) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0615FA345B1A7493CBAB1782D85F458785F9 "Longchamps to Sell Luchow's and 4 Others for $8-Million"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Over time, the quality of Lüchow's food and service had declined, with stemware abandoned in favor of short glasses, and no tablecloths at lunch, according to employees of the period.<ref name="mimi">Sheraton, Mimi (November 16, 1979) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60610FC385A12728DDDAF0994D9415B898BF1D3&scp=16&sq=luchow%27s&st=p "Restaurants: Luchow's"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 [[File:NYU University Hall.jpg|thumb|left|225px|[[NYU]]'s University Hall was built on the site of Lüchow's in 1998]]
-With completion in 1979 of the final round of refurbishments at 14th Street by [[Restaurant Associates]],<ref name=mimi /> whose principal, Peter Aschkenasy, was friends with Mayor [[Ed Koch]],<ref>Haberman, Clyde (March 30, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/30/nyregion/panel-considers-citing-luchow-s-as-a-landmark.html?scp=18&sq=luchow%27s&st=nyt "Panel Considers Citing Luchow's as a Landmark"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> providing much needed publicity, the place was seemingly resurrected, and there were a few years of capacity Christmas season business. Architecture students made their weekly visits to view the eclectic bric-a-brac and statuary, stained glass skylights and art nouveau appointments; and it was said that the frequently mentioned "1500 couverts" (pronounced "covers") in one day occurred multiple times.
+With completion in 1979 of the final round of refurbishments at 14th Street by [[Restaurant Associates]],<ref name=mimi /> whose principal, Peter Aschkenasy, was friends with Mayor [[Ed Koch]],<ref>Haberman, Clyde (March 30, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/30/nyregion/panel-considers-citing-luchow-s-as-a-landmark.html?scp=18&sq=luchow%27s&st=nyt "Panel Considers Citing Luchow's as a Landmark"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> providing much needed publicity, the place was seemingly resurrected, and there were a few years of capacity Christmas season business. Architecture students made their weekly visits to view the eclectic bric-a-brac and statuary, stained glass skylights and art nouveau appointments; and it was said that the frequently mentioned "1500 couverts" (pronounced "covers") in one day occurred multiple times.{{cn|date=July 2024}}
 ===Demise===
-By the 1980s, the Union Square area had deteriorated considerably. The park itself was rundown and in serious need of refurbishment; the Academy of Music opera house and Tammany Hall had been torn down long before to build the [[Consolidated Edison Building|headquarters of Consolidated Edison]]; the discount [[S. Klein]]'s department store across the street was closed and abandoned; and the movie theatre next to the restaurant had become a rock concert venue, initially also dubbed the "[[Palladium (New York City)|Academy of Music]]", but later changed to the "Palladium".  There was little left in the neighborhood to attract the type of clientele that Luchow's was intended to appeal to, and in 1982–83 the 14th Street location was abandoned,<ref>Fowler, Glenn (March 23, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/23/nyregion/luchow-s-moving-to-theater-district.html?scp=5&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Luchow's Moving to Theater District"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> dealing a serious blow to efforts to revitalize the neighborhood.<ref>Staff (March 28, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/28/nyregion/14th-st-upgrading-dealt-blow-by-luchow-s-move.html?scp=4&sq=luchow's&st=cse "14th St. Upgrading Dealt Blow by Luchow's Move"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> The saleable contents were auctioned off,<ref>Krebs, Albin and Thomas, Richard G. Jr. (October 9, 1981)  [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/09/nyregion/notes-on-people-044120.html?scp=4&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Notes on People"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref><ref>Reif, Rita (October 23, 1981) [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/23/arts/auctions.html?scp=5&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Auctions"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> and the business was moved to a spot below street level at
+By the 1980s, the Union Square area had deteriorated considerably. The park itself was run down and in serious need of refurbishment. The discount [[S. Klein]]'s department store across the street was closed and abandoned; and the movie theatre next to the restaurant had become a rock concert venue, initially also dubbed the "[[Palladium (New York City)|Academy of Music]]", but later changed to the "Palladium".  There was little left in the neighborhood to attract the type of clientele that Luchow's was intended to appeal to, and in 1982–83 the 14th Street location was abandoned,<ref>Fowler, Glenn (March 23, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/23/nyregion/luchow-s-moving-to-theater-district.html?scp=5&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Luchow's Moving to Theater District"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> dealing a serious blow to efforts to revitalize the neighborhood.<ref>Staff (March 28, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/28/nyregion/14th-st-upgrading-dealt-blow-by-luchow-s-move.html?scp=4&sq=luchow's&st=cse "14th St. Upgrading Dealt Blow by Luchow's Move"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> The saleable contents were auctioned off,<ref>Krebs, Albin and Thomas, Richard G. Jr. (October 9, 1981)  [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/09/nyregion/notes-on-people-044120.html?scp=4&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Notes on People"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref><ref>Reif, Rita (October 23, 1981) [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/23/arts/auctions.html?scp=5&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Auctions"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> and the business was moved to a spot below street level at [[51st Street (Manhattan)|51st Street]] and [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]], with the aim of attracting Theater District crowds,<ref name=Fowler />  and the umlaut was dropped once again.<ref>Staff (August 3, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/03/opinion/topics-pronouncements-two-little-dots.html?scp=30&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Topics: Pronouncements: Two Little Dots" (editorial)] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
-[[51st Street (Manhattan)|51st Street]] and [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]], with the aim of attracting Theater District crowds,<ref name=Fowler />  and the ''umlaut'' was dropped once again.<ref>Staff (August 3, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/03/opinion/topics-pronouncements-two-little-dots.html?scp=30&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Topics: Pronouncements: Two Little Dots" (editorial)] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 The Theatre District restaurant lasted only a few years longer, but Luchow's lived on at other locations, notably [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]].<ref>McFaddon, Robert (December 22, 1980) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D15F63F5E12728DDDAB0A94DA415B8084F1D3&scp=1&sq=luchow%27s&st=p "Two Bombs Go Off in Penn Station..."] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Restaurant Associates having decided to branch out and make use of the famous name.
-After Lüchow's moved out, the 14th Street location was briefly "The Palace", a restaurant-discothèque,<ref>Staff (September 20, 1982) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4OcCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=%22Luchow's+burns%22&source=bl&ots=fiegLCAlwr&sig=vOGXgcZOahI-5j86Gah9hCrWUAI&hl=en&ei=tP9WTqDmPILg0QGiyMSrDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false "Nightclubs"] ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''</ref> and later a gay bar.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} An attempt was made to have the building demolished in 1985,<ref>Anderson, Susan Helen and Dunlap, David W. (August 28, 1985) [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/28/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-demolition-request-for-old-luchow-s.html?scp=2&sq=luchow%27s&st=nyt "New York Day by Day: Demolition Request for Old Luchow's"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> and it stood vacant for several years, never achieving  protected landmark status despite local efforts.<ref name="nypap1">[http://www.nypap.org/content/l%C3%BCchow%E2%80%99s ''Lüchow's''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006205520/http://www.nypap.org/content/l%C3%BCchow%E2%80%99s |date=October 6, 2011 }} at the New York Preservation Archive</ref><ref>Staff (September 19, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/19/nyregion/owners-of-luchow-building-fight-landmark-designation.html?scp=24&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Owners of Luchow Building Fight Landmark Designation"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> The fire on December 9, 1992, that finally consumed a good part of the interior is said to have been started by homeless people living in the building.<ref name="nypap1"/> The remains were demolished in 1995 and replaced by University Hall, a [[New York University]] dormitory and multi-use complex having retail frontage on 14th Street.<ref name="nypap1"/> Before the dorm was built, NYU announced plans to "revive" Luchow's by including a street-level "Gay 90's" themed restaurant in the building, which they intended to call "Luchow's" if permission could be obtained to do so,<ref>Staff (January 23, 1997) [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/23/nyregion/nyu-plans-a-revival-of-luchow-s.html?scp=61&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "N.Y.U. Plans a Revival of Luchow's"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> but these plans never came to fruition.
+After Lüchow's moved out, the 14th Street location was briefly the "Palace", a nightclub-cabaret-restaurant <ref>Staff (September 20, 1982) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4OcCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Luchow's+burns%22&pg=PA112 "Nightclubs"] ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''</ref> and later a gay bar.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.6sqft.com/then-now-from-luchows-german-restaurant-to-nyu-dorm/ | title=Then & Now: From Luchow's German Restaurant to NYU Dorm | date=August 2, 2023 }}</ref> An attempt was made to have the building demolished in 1985,<ref>Anderson, Susan Helen and Dunlap, David W. (August 28, 1985) [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/28/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-demolition-request-for-old-luchow-s.html?scp=2&sq=luchow%27s&st=nyt "New York Day by Day: Demolition Request for Old Luchow's"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> and it stood vacant for several years, never achieving  protected landmark status despite local efforts.<ref name="nypap1">[http://www.nypap.org/content/l%C3%BCchow%E2%80%99s ''Lüchow's''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006205520/http://www.nypap.org/content/l%C3%BCchow%E2%80%99s |date=October 6, 2011 }} at the New York Preservation Archive</ref><ref>Staff (September 19, 1982) [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/19/nyregion/owners-of-luchow-building-fight-landmark-designation.html?scp=24&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Owners of Luchow Building Fight Landmark Designation"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> It became the home of various squatters, drug addicts and prostitutes. In 1994, a mysterious fire destroyed any historic remnant of its vibrant past. The city ordered the building demolished.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nypap.org/content/l%C3%BCchow%E2%80%99s|title=Lüchow's &#124; The New York Preservation Archive Project|date=October 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006205520/http://www.nypap.org/content/l%C3%BCchow%E2%80%99s |accessdate=August 7, 2023|archive-date=October 6, 2011 }}</ref>  The building was replaced by University Hall, a [[New York University]] dormitory and multi-use complex having retail frontage on 14th Street.<ref name="nypap1"/> Before the dorm was built, NYU announced plans to "revive" Luchow's by including a street-level "Gay 90's" themed restaurant in the building, which they intended to call "Luchow's" if permission could be obtained to do so,<ref>Staff (January 23, 1997) [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/23/nyregion/nyu-plans-a-revival-of-luchow-s.html?scp=61&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "N.Y.U. Plans a Revival of Luchow's"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> but these plans never came to fruition.
 ==Music==
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 [[File:Bookjacket, Luchow's Cookbook.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Illustrated bookjacket by co-author and official Luchow's illustrator [[Ludwig Bemelmans]]; the restaurant as seen from above the Garden, looking across a corner of the Cafe toward the Hunting Room]]
-[[Victor Herbert]] was a noted concert cellist, conductor and composer of forty-three [[operetta]]s and numerous other choral and instrumental works. He brought an eight piece orchestra back from Vienna to perform at Lüchow's after one of his tours, and presided as its leader for nearly four years,<ref name=Mitchell27/> thus starting a musical tradition that carried through to the 1980s.<ref>Staff (December 31, 1981) "Dining and Dancing Through the Night" ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> A corner table with a commemorative plaque was remembered at Lüchow's as the "Victor Herbert Corner" and the place where Herbert and his associates founded the [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]] (ASCAP) in 1914.<ref>Mitchell, p.129</ref><ref>Staff (August 2, 1978) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2071EFF345A11728DDDAB0894D0405B888BF1D3&scp=25&sq=Luchow%27s&st=p "A Restaurant Dress List"] ''[[The New York Times]]'' </ref>  Songwriter [[Gus Kahn]] was another regular at the restaurant; he wrote the lyrics for "[[Yes Sir, That's My Baby (song)|Yes, Sir, That's My Baby]]" there.<ref name=encnyc />
+[[Victor Herbert]] was a concert cellist, conductor and composer of forty-three [[operetta]]s and numerous other choral and instrumental works. He brought an eight-piece orchestra back from Vienna to perform at Lüchow's after one of his tours, and presided as its leader for nearly four years,<ref name=Mitchell27/> starting a musical tradition that carried through to the 1980s.<ref>Staff (December 31, 1981) "Dining and Dancing Through the Night" ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> A corner table with a commemorative plaque was remembered at Lüchow's as the "Victor Herbert Corner" and the place where Herbert and his associates founded the [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]] (ASCAP) in 1914.<ref>Mitchell, p.129</ref><ref>Staff (August 2, 1978) [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2071EFF345A11728DDDAB0894D0405B888BF1D3&scp=25&sq=Luchow%27s&st=p "A Restaurant Dress List"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>  Songwriter [[Gus Kahn]] was another regular at the restaurant; he wrote the lyrics for "[[Yes Sir, That's My Baby (song)|Yes, Sir, That's My Baby]]" there.<ref name=encnyc />
-Other works and composers which were featured at Luchow's include the [[art song]]s of [[Richard Strauss]] or [[Johannes Brahms]], "[[In a Persian Market]]" by [[Albert Ketèlbey]], [[Franz Schubert]]'s "[[Six moments musicaux (Schubert)|Moments Musicaux]]" or [[Schwanengesang]], [[Richard Wagner]]'s "[[Wesendonck Lieder|Wesendonck Songs]]", or ''[[Tannhäuser (opera)|Tannhäuser]]''. For comic relief, there was a strolling Oompah Band, the Royal Bavarians, which played songs such as "[[Lili Marleen]]", "[[The Beer Barrel Polka]]" and [[Sigmund Romberg]]'s "[[The Student Prince#Musical numbers|Heidelberger Trinklied]]" drinking song from ''[[The Student Prince]]''<ref>Mitchell, p. 136</ref>
+Other works and composers which were featured at Luchow's include the [[art song]]s of [[Richard Strauss]] or [[Johannes Brahms]], "[[In a Persian Market]]" by [[Albert Ketèlbey]], [[Franz Schubert]]'s "[[Six moments musicaux (Schubert)|Moments Musicaux]]" or [[Schwanengesang]], [[Richard Wagner]]'s "[[Wesendonck Lieder|Wesendonck Songs]]", or ''[[Tannhäuser (opera)|Tannhäuser]]''. For comic relief, there was a strolling Oompah Band, the Royal Bavarians, which played songs such as "[[Lili Marleen]]", "[[The Beer Barrel Polka]]" and [[Sigmund Romberg]]'s "[[The Student Prince#Musical numbers|Heidelberger Trinklied]]" drinking song from ''[[The Student Prince]].''<ref>Mitchell, p. 136</ref>
-Herbert's and Romberg's Viennese counterpart [[Franz Lehár]] and his music, including "[[Dein ist mein ganzes Herz]]" and the "[[Merry Widow Waltz]]" represent the ''[[Gemütlichkeit|gemütlicher]]'' (comfortable and cozy) side of the restaurant's personality. Other musical fare from this branch – ''[[The Tales of Hoffmann]]'' by [[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach]] and ''[[Hansel and Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]'' by [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]], along with the [[Strauss Waltzes]] such as "[[The Blue Danube|Blue Danube]]" – made up a good part of the basic Lüchow's repertoire performed by the piano and string ensemble first known as the Vienna Art Strings, or Quartet,<ref name=Mitchell26>Mitchell, p.26</ref> and later as the Victor Herbert Quartet, or Trio.<ref>Staff (December 31, 1981) [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/31/arts/dining-dancing-through-night-if-you-d-like-dine-dance-into-new-year-there-are.html?scp=10&sq=luchow%27s&st=nyt "Dining and Dancing Through the Night"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Add to that some of the numbers from Herbert's ''[[Babes in Toyland (operetta)|Babes in Toyland]]'', such as [[Babes in Toyland (operetta)#Musical numbers|"Toyland"]] and [[Babes in Toyland (operetta)#Musical numbers|"March of the Toys"]] for instance, plus a few from ''[[The Nutcracker]]'', and a great many of the well known [[Christmas carols]] and songs, and you get something like what was played during the [[Christmas]] season at Lüchow's down through the years.
+Herbert's and Romberg's Viennese counterpart [[Franz Lehár]] and his music, including "[[Dein ist mein ganzes Herz]]" and the "[[Merry Widow Waltz]]" represent the ''[[Gemütlichkeit|gemütlicher]]'' (comfortable and cozy) side of the restaurant's personality. Other musical fare from this branch – ''[[The Tales of Hoffmann]]'' by [[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach]] and ''[[Hansel and Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]'' by [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]], along with the [[Strauss Waltzes]] such as "[[The Blue Danube|Blue Danube]]" – made up a good part of the basic Lüchow's repertoire performed by the piano and string ensemble first known as the Vienna Art Strings, or Quartet,<ref name=Mitchell26>Mitchell, p.26</ref> and later as the Victor Herbert Quartet, or Trio.<ref>Staff (December 31, 1981) [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/31/arts/dining-dancing-through-night-if-you-d-like-dine-dance-into-new-year-there-are.html?scp=10&sq=luchow%27s&st=nyt "Dining and Dancing Through the Night"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Also played during the [[Christmas]] season were some of the numbers from Herbert's ''[[Babes in Toyland (operetta)|Babes in Toyland]]'', such as [[Babes in Toyland (operetta)#Musical numbers|"Toyland"]] and [[Babes in Toyland (operetta)#Musical numbers|"March of the Toys"]], as well as pieces from ''[[The Nutcracker]]'', and many popular [[Christmas carols]] and songs.
+Lüchow’s was referenced on [[The Danny Thomas Show]], originally titled “[[Make Room for Daddy]]”, in Season 6, episode 23 that aired on March 9, 1959 where [[Frankie Laine]] and  [[Annette Funicello]] also appeared. Danny invited Frankie to potato pancakes at Lüchow’s.
 ==Cuisine==
-Lüchow's menu was [[German cuisine|German]] oriented throughout its existence, with dishes including [[Wiener Schnitzel]] and various [[wild game]]. "[[Knackwurst]] and [[Sauerkraut]]", [[Bratwurst]], red cabbage and beets, [[Sauerbraten]] and [[pumpernickel]] bread were perennial staples. Pfannkuchen mit Preiselbeeren, (flambéed thin pancakes with [[lingonberry]] sauce) and [[Sachertorte]], a recipe borrowed from the famous [[Sacher Hotel]] in [[Vienna]], were favorites of the dessert selection. Apparently the German orientation was relaxed somewhat in the years after 1923 when August Lüchow died, putting the restaurant under control of his sister's husband Victor Eckstein.<ref name=Mitchell29>Mitchell, p. 29</ref> Even during Lüchow's lifetime it was necessary to make compromises: during the First World War anti-German sentiment ran so high that by 1917 he thought it prudent to remove the umlaut over the "u" of Lüchow's in all public occurrences of the name.<ref name=whoput>Grimes, William (November 30, 2009) [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/nyregion/01mitchell.html "Jan Mitchell, Who Put the "ü" Back in Lüchow's, Dies at 96"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
+Lüchow's menu was [[German cuisine|German]]-oriented throughout its existence, with dishes including [[Wiener Schnitzel]] and various [[wild game]]. "[[Knackwurst]] and [[Sauerkraut]]", [[Bratwurst]], red cabbage and beets, [[Sauerbraten]], their still famous [https://pin.it/7w4M7MNYm Potato pancakes], and [[pumpernickel]] bread were perennial staples. Pfannkuchen mit Preiselbeeren (flambéed thin pancakes with [[lingonberry]] sauce) and [[Sachertorte]], a recipe borrowed from the famous [[Sacher Hotel]] in [[Vienna]], were favorites of the dessert selection. Apparently the German orientation was relaxed somewhat in the years after 1923 when August Lüchow died, putting the restaurant under control of his sister's husband Victor Eckstein.<ref name=Mitchell29>Mitchell, p. 29</ref> Even during August Lüchow's lifetime it was necessary to make compromises: during the First World War anti-German sentiment ran so high that by 1917 he thought it prudent to remove the umlaut over the "u" of Lüchow's in all public occurrences of the name.<ref name="whoput">Grimes, William (November 30, 2009) [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/nyregion/01mitchell.html "Jan Mitchell, Who Put the "ü" Back in Lüchow's, Dies at 96"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 ==Noted guests==
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 *[[Andrew Carnegie]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[Enrico Caruso]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
+*[[Dick Cavett]]
 *[[Walter P. Chrysler]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[Bob Considine]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
-*[[Terrence Cardinal Cooke]]&nbsp;<ref name=nytnov23>Haberman, Clyde and Krebs, Albin (November 23, 1978) "Notes on People" ''[[The New York Times]]'' </ref>
+*[[Terrence Cardinal Cooke]]&nbsp;<ref name=nytnov23>Haberman, Clyde and Krebs, Albin (November 23, 1978) "Notes on People" ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 *[[Thomas B. Costain]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
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 *[[Theodore Dreiser]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[W. E. B. Du Bois]]&nbsp;<ref name="Volume II p. 134"/>
-*[[Antonín Dvořák]]&nbsp;<ref name="Huneker1919">Huneker, James Gibbons (August 24, 1919) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F12FD355413738DDDAD0A94D0405B898DF1D3 "Musical Memories, Oscar Hammerstein and Dvorak"] ''[[The New York Times]]'' </ref>
+*[[Antonín Dvořák]]&nbsp;<ref name="Huneker1919">Huneker, James Gibbons (August 24, 1919) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F12FD355413738DDDAD0A94D0405B898DF1D3 "Musical Memories, Oscar Hammerstein and Dvorak"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 *[[James Montgomery Flagg]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[Jane Fonda]]&nbsp;<ref name=nytnov16  />
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 *[[James Huneker]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[Vincent Impellitteri]]&nbsp;<ref>Staff (December 16, 1956) "Ernst Seute, Luchow's Official, Is Dead" ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
-*[[Jacob Javits]]&nbsp;<ref>Phillips, McCandlish (October 15, 1956) "Javits Campaigns in Boyhood Area" ''[[The New York Times]]'' </ref>
+*[[Jacob Javits]]&nbsp;<ref>Phillips, McCandlish (October 15, 1956) "Javits Campaigns in Boyhood Area" ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 *[[Rafael Joseffy]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[Gus Kahn]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
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 *[[O. O. McIntyre]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[Norman Mailer]]&nbsp;<ref name=nytnov20 />
-*[[Dudley Field Malone]] <ref name=mitchell />
+*[[Dudley Field Malone]]<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[J. P. Marquand]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[H. L. Mencken]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[J.P. Morgan]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[Charles F. Murphy]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
-*[[Bess Myerson]]&nbsp;<ref name=nytoct31>Nemy, Enid (October 31, 1979) "It Was Not a Night Meant For Staying Home by the Fire" ''[[The New York Times]]'' </ref>
+*[[Bess Myerson]]&nbsp;<ref name=nytoct31>Nemy, Enid (October 31, 1979) "It Was Not a Night Meant For Staying Home by the Fire" ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 *[[George Jean Nathan]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[LeRoy Neiman]]&nbsp;<ref>Fabricant, Florence (October 8, 2003) [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/dining/food-stuff-leroy-neiman-dined-here-with-pen-and-fork.html?scp=18&sq=Luchow%27s&st=nyt "Food Stuff: LeRoy Neiman Dined Here With Pen and Fork"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
-*[[Richard M. Nixon]]&nbsp;<ref>Donavan, Robert J. (April 25, 1965) "Over Nominated, Under Elected, Still a Promising Candidate" ''[[The New York Times]]'' </ref>
+*[[Richard M. Nixon]]&nbsp;<ref>Donavan, Robert J. (April 25, 1965) "Over Nominated, Under Elected, Still a Promising Candidate" ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 {{col-break|gap=2em}}
 *[[Ignacy Jan Paderewski]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
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 *[[Anna Pavlova]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[I. M. Pei]]&nbsp;<ref name=nytoct31 />
-* [[Max Perkins]]<ref>{{cite book| first = Andrew Scott | last = Berg | title = Max Perkins, Editor of Genius| publisher = Dutton| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bKlZAAAAMAAJ| date = 1978|isbn=0525154272| accessdate = 26 March 2017}}</ref>
+* [[Max Perkins]]<ref>{{cite book| first = Andrew Scott | last = Berg | title = Max Perkins, Editor of Genius| publisher = Dutton| url = https://archive.org/details/maxperkinsedito000berg| url-access = registration | date = 1978|isbn=0525154272| accessdate = 26 March 2017}}</ref>
 *[[Cole Porter]]&nbsp;<ref name=nytnov11 >Staff (November 11, 1965) "Julius Richter, Violinist, Dead; Played for diners at Luchow's" ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
 *[[Vincent Price]]&nbsp;<ref>Price, Mary and Vincent (1965) ''A Treasury of Great Recipes'', p.237</ref>
@@ Line 171: / Line 190: @@
 *[[Lester Walton]]&nbsp;<ref name="Volume II p. 134">[[W. E. B. DuBois|Du Bois, W. E. B.]] (1976) "The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois Volume II: Selections, 1934–1944", Herbet Aptheker (ed.) Amherst, Massachusetts: [[University of Massachusetts Press]]. p.134</ref>
 *[[Jerome Weidman]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
+*[[Orson Welles]]
 *[[Henryk Wieniawski]]&nbsp;<ref name=mitchell />
 *[[Charles W. Yost]]
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 Mencken wrote, "Nathan and I saw [[James Huneker|him]] for the last time at lunch at Lüchow's in June 1920. He looked somewhat thin and pasty, but we ascribed his appearance, not to illness, but to the fact that he was drinking tea. Tea in Lüchow's, the citadel of Pilsner!"<ref>
-{{cite book| first = H. L.| last = Mencken|authorlink=H. L. Mencken|| title = My Life as Author and Editor| publisher = Knopf | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EojIZUj3ZC8C&| date = 1993| location=New York |ISBN=0679413154| accessdate = 26 March 2017}}</ref>
+{{cite book| first = H. L.| last = Mencken|authorlink=H. L. Mencken| title = My Life as Author and Editor| publisher = Knopf | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EojIZUj3ZC8C| date = 1993| location=New York |isbn=0679413154| accessdate = 26 March 2017}}</ref>
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