Seton Hotel

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6-story hotel completed in 1909 as an apartment building. Designed by Walker & Gillette, it was converted to a hotel in 1931. The facade is clad in grey brick, with two main bays. At the banded ground floor, there is a central entrance, framed in grey marble and recessed at the top of a set of stone steps; a rounded grey canopy extends out over the sidewalk. To the right is a large window divided into a tripartite design, with a splayed brick lintel and large keystone, and sitting atop a panel of redder brick. There is another such window to the left, as well as a narrow single-window at the far east end. Below this window is a basement doorway, with a low iron fence around the sideways steps leading down to the door. A stone cornice caps the ground floor on either side of the marble entry bay.

The upper floors have wider tripartite windows in both bays, with stone sills and protruding air-conditioning units in the outer panes of each window. In the center of the 5th floor there is an ornamental stone shield and wreath. The facade is topped by a stone band course and simple brick roof parapet. The east elevation is clad in orange-painted brick, with a windowless surface at the front. Further toward the rear the wall is slightly set back, and has a bay of single-windows, another bay of single-windows with an abutting bay of paired narrow windows, and two final bays of single-windows. The hotel contains 61 guest rooms.

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