Famed artist Maxfield Parrish was a Quaker and teetotaler who was hesitant to decorate a watering hole, but he couldn’t resist the $5,000 commission being offered by John Jacob Astor IV in 1906 ...

Its Gilded Age allure is right at home inside a historic hotel founded by 19th-century tycoon John Jacob Astor IV. The visual centerpiece of the space is an outsized mural painted by Maxfield ...