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Gild Hall, A Thompson Hotel
New York City, New York, United States · Thompson Hotels · Accessible Luxury
Behind an ordinary brick façade on Gold Street, Jim Walrod turned a former Holiday Inn into a downtown hunting lodge for the Thompson era: antler chandeliers, tobacco-colored leather, books, bell jars, and bedrooms with buckle-strapped headboards. The 130-room hotel reopened as Gild Hall in 2008, giving Wall Street a clubby counterpoint to its glass towers; downstairs, Felice pours Tuscan wine and La Soffitta keeps the second round upstairs.
- 130 rooms
- Opened 2000
- Neighborhood: Financial District
- Interiors: Jim Walrod; Bill Rooney Studio (2016 guestroom redesign)
About Gild Hall, A Thompson Hotel
- When the building opened as Holiday Inn Wall Street in 2000, its advertising briefly claimed it was the most wired hotel in New York.
- Bill Rooney Studio redesigned the guestrooms in 2016; the largest suites gained Slim Aarons photographs, cocktail kits, and, in the Thompson Suite, a standing clawfoot tub.
History
The building opened in 2000 as Holiday Inn Wall Street. Sold in 2007, it reopened in 2008 as Gild Hall after Jim Walrod recast the interiors as a dark, club-like lodge; Bill Rooney Studio refreshed the guestrooms in 2016.
The setting
Gild Hall stands at 15 Gold Street in the Financial District, though its entrance is on Platt Street, a few blocks from Wall Street and the East River.
Awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Recommended (2026)
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