Plaza hotel new York circa 1910. Original color photo

The Plaza opened October 1, 1907. The completed hotel cost $12.5 million, making it one of the most expensive buildings ever built in New York City at the time.

This photo is from the Albert Kahn Museum.

http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/english/

 In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography

Here is a link for more info and photos:

http://citynoise.org/article/10598

Here are two other 1910 view of the hotel.

This is the hotel today.