TWA Hotel

The mid-century modern icon TWA Flight Center was rehabilitated by MCR/MORSE Development with architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle into the TWA Hotel. Ryan’s Historic Tax Credits team aided in the preservation work by completing the historic tax credit applications and providing best preservation practices recommendations, ultimately helping the project secure $36 million in federal historic tax credits and $5 million in state historic tax credits.

Completed in 1962, the TWA Flight Center was the epitome of contemporary, stylish travel, selling the fantasy of a modern world connected through air travel. When given the opportunity to design their own airport terminal at JFK International Airport in New York, TWA chose to showcase their forward-thinking ideas and hired architect Eero Saarinen to design what would become one of the most architecturally celebrated mid-century modern buildings in the country. The curving, boundary-pushing concrete structure with sleek finishes represents Saarinen’s legacy of breaking from the popular International Style of the time and creating something fluid and expressive.