A Niagara Landmark – The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Part 3

The arrival of a 20th Century-Fox Film crew at Niagara Falls to shoot on location, the film Niagara. His star was Marilyn Monroe, which remained with her co-stars Joseph Cotton, Jean Peters, at the Brock Plaza Hotel. Needless to say, their presence in the hotel and the area has a lot of interest. By the way, if you stay in room 801, you are in what was Marilyn’s room. 1948 An important addition to the Brock Plaza Hotel has been completed. Two floors were built on the roof of the building.

They contained more guest rooms, a new Rainbow Shop, an expanded dining room Rainbow and a new kitchen. A bit of TV history was made on Sunday, has 12 September 1948, if, if-TV (now WIVB) from a live television broadcast from Buffalo Niagara Falls, Ontario. This program showed the American and Canadian Falls and the surrounding area. It was the first time the falls of Niagara have been shown on television was. It was also made the first international television broadcast ever in America.

The cameras were mounted on the eleventh floor balcony of the Brock Plaza Hotel. Officials from both sides of the border have been invited to the landmark show on screens up in the Hotel Blue Room to see set. England’s Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, the Brock Plaza in 1951. In 1952, the Brock Plaza and the installation of the first commercial television watched in a Canadian hotel. In 1958, after England’s Princess Margaret, in her sister, Queen Elizabeth II on the trail, the next is to visit in a long list of licensing fees, the Brock Plaza.

The Brock Plaza undergoes a $ 500,000 expansion in 1959, including the addition of the Crystal Ballroom with its ornate chandeliers, wall paintings and Oriental rugs. The king and queen of Nepal you can dine at the Rainbow Room restaurant overlooking the falls in 1960. They are joined by the General Manager of the Brock Plaza, Mr. Albert A. Bonnet. The Brock Plaza Hotel welcomes its sister hotel in 1966, the Sheraton Foxhead Inn, which is next door built. The 14-storey hotel was enlarged and completely renovated in 2000, always Niagara largest resort property – the Sheraton on the Falls. In 1967 Construction of the Sheraton Motor Inn, later renamed and renovated Skyline Inn, directly behind the Brock Plaza. The Brock Plaza building owners Maple Leaf Village Amusement Park Mall and next to the hotel in 1976, the original site of the Oneida Silver Company.

The tourism destination contains a tower falls, large Ferris wheel and unique shops and shopping centers. In 1981 Niagara lights spectacular winter landscape for the first time. The Winter Festival of Lights, which would become a glowing annual tradition, is celebrating its first year. The Hard Rock Cafe – with an outstanding collection of rock memorabilia – opens next to the Brock Plaza on Falls Avenue. It is Niagara’s hot spot for dining and celebrity ad. Diners enjoy the multi-million-dollar memorabilia from the collections of Elton John, George Harrison and Elvis Presley.