Marlton Hotel

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8-story dormitory building completed in 1900 as a hotel. Designed by by Hugo Kafka, it opened as the Marlton Hotel. It is built entirely of light-colored brick with handsome stone trim at door and windows. It has five bays of paired windows. The first two floors are of rusticated brick, and the end bays at each side are in a curved wall section similar to a bay window. These extend from the second floor up to the base of the top floor where they are capped by wrought iron balconies. The main doorway is flanked by paired, fluted Ionic columns has columns with entablature above, that includes a carved panel reading "MARLTON". A small balcony with wrought-iron railing tops the entablature at the 2nd floor, which is the most ornate. It has rustications, tall carved keystones, and cartouches at the center and end bays. The attic floor is crowned by a handsome brown roof cornice carried on uniformly spaced console brackets.

The hotel was notable for having housed many famous artistic figures, especially during the peak of the area's bohemian scene. In 1987, The New School leased the building as a dormitory (called Marlton House), housing primarily freshman students. The building was sold in 2012, and reopened as a boutique hotel in 2013, with its original name of Marlton Hotel.