Howard Hotel, Former hotel site in the Financial District, Manhattan, United States

The Howard Hotel, also called Howard's Hotel or the Howard House, was a six-story building at the corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane (176 Broadway). It measured 161 feet along the front and 130 feet deep, and its dining room was 160 by 30 feet. The building was converted into offices in 1868; the Cushman Building (1898) by C. P. H. Gilbert now occupies the corner.

The Howard Hotel opened in March 1840 at 176 Broadway, at the corner of Maiden Lane, a six-story building 161 feet wide and 130 feet deep. Daniel D. Howard and John P. Howard, sons of a Burlington, Vermont hotelier, were its early proprietors; J.E. Kingsley and Ainslee took over by the late 1850s. Converted into offices in 1868, it was later replaced on the corner by C. P. H. Gilbert's Cushman Building (1898).

The hotel's name comes from its proprietors Daniel D. and John P. Howard, sons of a Burlington, Vermont hotelier. Its principal waiter for at least 1842–45 was Tunis Campbell, later an African-American politician, who published a well-regarded 1848 guide to hotel management. In November 1864 the hotel was among the targets the "Confederate Army of Manhattan" tried to burn down.

The hotel no longer exists: the corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane is now occupied by the Cushman Building (1898) by C. P. H. Gilbert and the adjoining building to the north. Look for that corner when tracing the site; the nearest subway access is at Fulton Street, a few blocks south.

The hotel's owners locked up the servants to stop news of John Tyler's wedding to Julia Gardiner from leaking, so the June 1842 marriage surprised the public. Tunis Campbell, later an African-American politician, worked as the hotel's principal waiter from at least 1842 to 1845 and published a guide to hotel management in 1848.