ARTSCULTURE · HISTORICAL MARKER

The Plaza Hotel

New York
· The Home of Eloise
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Kay Thompson lived at The Plaza while writing "Eloise," first published in 1955. Thompson and illustrator Hillary Knight brought to life this fictitious character, an exuberant and precocious six-year-old who lived on the top floor of the hotel.
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