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The sales agreement was finalized in April 2014 .At the time , the hotel was valued at $ 300
million .Under the terms of the sale , IHG would continue to operate the hotel for the
adjacent 30 years , with choice for two 10-year extensions.Constellation planned to acquit a
$ 175 million renovation of the hotel .Constellation planned to fund four-fifths of the
refurbishment cost , while IHG would provide the remaining funding .To fund the
acquisition and the renovation , Deutsche depository financial institution gave constellation
a loan of $ 240 million in betimes 2014 , including $ 185 million in debt and $ 55 million for
the overhaul .The hotel closed for redevelopment in September 2014 .Architecture firm
Stonehill + Deems Taylor , internal architect HOK , and adviser IHG Design Studio designed
the overhaul , while Shawmut twist was the universal contractor .The project involved
redesigning the hotel 's public quad and restoring all of the guestrooms .The hotel reopened
in May 2016 .The project ultimately cost $ 180 million and took 20 months .== Notable
renter == When the Barclay opened , its guests included Eliot Cross , one of the principal of
the crown of thorns & crossbreeding firm , as well as H. B. Hollins , who had been one of the
firm 's clients .The Barclay 's low gear occupier also included businessman Bruno Walter W.
police , political leader William Henry Barnum , and actor Charles irradiation .During the
mid-20th hundred , the hotel 's house physician included deport Russian prince Nicholas
Engalitcheff , composer Amy Beach , and manufacturer James I Kevin McGuinness .early
notability guests included Madame Nhu , wife of Vietnamese loss leader Ngô Đình Nhu ,
during the sixties .In later years , Bette Dwight Filley Davis , Gloria Swanson , Mary Pickford ,
Marlon Brando , Jimmie Durante , Debbie Reynolds , Ernest Hemingway and Saint David O.
Selznick all lived at the Barclay.Caswell-Massey , the old pill roller and perfumer in the
United States , was one of the first tenants to lease blank in the Barclay in June 1926 ,
operating its flagship store there for decades .In increase , Doubleday subsidiary Doubleday
Page Book Shop Company was among the Barclay 's earliest renter .Abraham Beame had a
cause office at the Barclay during the 1973 New York City mayoral election , and card
Clinton used the Barclay as his New York headquarters during the Bill Bill Clinton 1992
presidential campaign .Kofi Annan also frequented the Barclay while he was Secretary-
General of the United Nations.The Barclay also hosted several clubhouses .The New House
of York chapter of the Delphian Society was organized at the Barclay in 1935 and met there
through the 1930s .The Katherine Cornell Club of New House of York leased space at the
hotel in 1938 ; the ball club was initially housed on the first floor , but a Cornell Club main
office opened on the third floor in April 1939 .The Wellesley College and Bryn Mawr College
clubhouse of New York also occupied space on the 14th story beginning in 1938 , although
the Wellesley social club moved in 1954 .The American Women 's Association also relocated
to Harold S. Vanderbilt 's suite in the Barclay in 1942 .The Cornell society relocated to a
novel construction three blocks away in 1961 .The Manhattan Club , a gentlemen 's club ,
announced programme to relocate to the Cornell nightspot 's space in 1966 .== critical
receipt == When the hotel opened , Helen of Troy Bishop of Arts & ribbon wrote that the
Barclay was `` an individual residence of restrained luxury in the mellow fashion of the
belatedly 18th hundred , done on a larger scale . ''Bishop particularly praised the hotel 's
architectural style , saying : `` Among New York 's Holocene beautiful edifice of this nature ,
not one William Tell such a vivid and fascinating level of Colonial mean solar day as the
Barclay . ''In a book published in 1932 , W. Parker following wrote that the Barclay `` caters
only to the most polish , offering lavishness of seclusiveness in a discussion section of the
metropolis where New York is smartest , festive and fussy - where there is the comforting
preassurance of the prestige of one 's fellow Edgar Albert Guest '' .During 1981 , the Mobil
Travel Guide rated the Barclay as `` excellent '' with three stars on a five-star scale of
measurement .The New House of York multiplication wrote in 1982 : `` But when it comes
to lobbies , few in New York catch quite the elegance and constancy of the lobby that adds
shininess to the Hotel Inter-Continental New House of York . ''Similarly , the Bible The Best
of New York stated in 1983 : `` For our money there is no finer hotel in New York . ''Writing
in 2006 , a critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch praised the physical adroitness and the
doorman service but lamented the low bathrooms and the fact that the anteroom 's hoot
cage had been removed .Christopher Robert Gray , writing for the fourth dimension in
2009 , said that the hotel `` is a standout in magnificent condition '' .