The Evelyn Hotel

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145-foot, 12-story Beaux-Arts hotel completed in 1905. Designed by William H. Birkmire as the Broztell Hotel, it was originally planned as an apartment hotel, but was amended to a transient hotel during its construction. It later became part of the Latham Hotel adjoining its rear wall.

The building has a 4-bay, 3-story rusticated limestone base, with bracketed 2nd-floor balconies and window sills, decorative wrought-iron railings, and a bracketed crown. The ground floor has four round-arches, while the other two floors of the base have paired windows in the middle bays, and single-windows in the end bays. The 3rd floor has keyed terra-cotta moldings, which continue in a narrower, but more regular form on the upper floors.

Above the 3rd floor a row of brackets at the center two bays support a cornice at the base of a double column of projecting, red-painted cast-iron bay windows with decorative wrought-iron railings. Five large console brackets support a cornice above the 10th floor. The top two floors have banded end bays; there are paired windows in the center bays, and all the windows have splayed stone lintels. The curved roof parapets over the end bays feature cartouches, festoons and niches. The west elevation is a plain brick wall.

Perhaps the most interesting elements, though, were the teardrop-shaped light fixtures attached to the facade in 1999, which were later removed in 2014. They are collectively a work of art called "Tongues and Flames" by Finnish artist Stefan Lindfors. The largest, more horn-shaped sculptures sprouted from above the building's four first-story entrances. They were installed when the building was reopened as the Gershwin Hotel, a funky, affordable hotel filled with original art by the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

It is now known as The Evelyn Hotel with a new interior by Parts & Labor Design for Triumph Hotels.

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