Opened in 1923, the Times Square Hotel, on 43d Street at Eighth Avenue, for years enjoyed a reputation as a gracious, affordable residential hotel that also offered rooms for tourists and other transient guests.

I have not hesitated to recommend this gracious and lovely hotel to my friends and relatives who are planning a visit to Manhattan.

Where to Stay The Omni Netherland Plaza, Fifth and Race Streets, (513) 421-9100, is a grand and gracious hotel, built in 1931.

This imposing Victorian building houses Dunedin's most gracious hotel, offering 178 rooms and suites.

At such times it seems there will always be a place in this world for gracious old hotels like the Grand.

The Commercial Hotel, "a typically large and rather gracious hotel with an impressive upper verandah", was built in 1924.

Glen Adinda Hotel, 14 Glen Road, Glencairn 7975, 782-1122, fax 782-2321, is a gracious old hotel in Glencairn, a hamlet adjacent to Simon's Town, with a restaurant that serves afternoon tea.

The street they traveled on boasted fine shops and gracious hotels, the occasional theatre and park.

Forbes is located on the site of the historic Princeton Inn, a gracious hotel overlooking the Princeton golf course.

It was a gilded city, whose Victorian architecture, cultivated merchants, warm sea breezes and gracious hotels made it prosperous, elegant and sensuous.