Hotel AKA NoMad (New York City, New York)

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141 foot, 15-story hotel completed in 1931. Designed by Jardine, Hill & Murdock, it was formerly called the Roger Williams Hotel, named for the 17th century theologian and abolitionist, who started the first Baptist Church in America. The two main facades, both six bays wide, are clad in orange brick above a double-height limestone ground floor.

The southern half of the Madison Avenue facade is dominated by a 2-story, 3-bay wide stone-framed entrance serving the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, located on the opposite side of the building. The land for the hotel was leased from the church, which was torn down in 2015, though its presence on Madison Avenue remains via the entry built into the base of the hotel. It features two pairs of bronze double-doors set under a large round-arch with triple rope moldings supported by columns. Flanking the main doors are two round-arched windows, and flanking the arch are two circular oculus windows. An arcade of small round-arched with diminutive columns runs across the top. To the north are three tall, rectangular, recessed bays, with the hotel entrance doorway below a window at the northern one. The other two have black-and-white striped canvas awnings halfway up, as do the western two bays on 31st Street. The base at the eastern four bays is split into two levels, with smaller rectangular windows at both the upper and lower parts. An arcaded band course runs below the upper part, which is clad in brick with stone quoins around the windows.

On the upper floors the window bays are framed vertically by darker brick, and set back above the 12th floor, except for the end bays on the north facade, and northern and 2nd-from-southernmost bays on the west facade, which rise higher as towers topped with white stone ornament. There are also two columns of small, narrow bathroom windows at the inside of the two end-bay towers of the north elevation.
The top floors are set farther back.

The hotel has 194 guest rooms, formerly the Roger Hotel. New interiors were designed by Piero Lissoni.

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