Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel
Atlantic City's largest resort hotel, famous for its reinforced-concrete wing, was demolished as casino redevelopment remade the Boardwalk.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A vast Atlantic City resort combining the older Marlborough Hotel with the reinforced-concrete Blenheim wing.
Architect Will Price's complex became a Boardwalk landmark for its dome, seaside rooms and early use of reinforced concrete at hotel scale. It operated through the city's resort boom and decline.
Existence timeline
The first hotel establishes the Boardwalk site.
A major reinforced-concrete expansion transforms the resort.
The combined hotel reaches its mature public identity.
The property changes hands as Atlantic City legalises casino gambling.
The resort is removed for the new development.
Why it ended
Bally acquired the site for a casino project and demolished the hotel in 1978–1979.
Last confirmed trace
Historic American Buildings Survey photographs, measured drawings and written histories comprehensively document the resort.
What it left behind
Its detailed federal record preserves an influential building that casino-era Atlantic City physically erased.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.