Hanover House Hotel

Via: The New York Pubic Library

Former Location –
Hanover House, was an inexpensive hotel for transients located on the northwest corner of 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue (now called Avenue of the Americas).

In February of 1940, Woody Guthrie wrote his best known song, “This Land is Your Land” while living here.

Woody Guthrie Discography:

1940 – Dust Bowl Ballads
1951 – Nursery Days
1956 – Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child
1956 – Bound For Glory
1960 – Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti
1962 – Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs
1964 – Hard Travelin’
1964 – Library of Congress Recordings
1972 – Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie
1976 – Struggle
1987 – Columbia River Collection
1994 – Long Ways to Travel: The Unreleased Folkways Masters,
1997 – This Land Is Your Land, The Asch Recordings, Vol.1
1997 – Muleskinner Blues, The Asch Recordings, Vol.2
1998 – Hard Travelin’, The Asch Recordings, Vol.3
1999 – Buffalo Skinners, The Asch Recordings, Vol.4
2007 – The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
2009 – My Dusty Road
2012 – Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Hanover House Hotel
101 W 43rd St
New York NY 10036