Washington Square Hotel

 hotel, 1902_construction

9-story hotel completed in 1902 and opened as the Hotel Earle. Designed by Henry A. Koelble for Earl S. L'Amoureux, it underwent extensive renovations in 1916 when it was joined with a 4-story annex at the corner of Waverly and MacDougal Street. The original 9-story portion of the hotel has a rusticated stone first floor with arched windows and doorway. The second floor has square-headed, stone-framed windows surmounted by lintels with keystones. A stone balcony extends the width of the building at the eighth floor and a dentiled roof cornice crowns the ninth floor. The main facade is clad in red brick with white stone quoins.

The annex building is quite different in character. It is built of dark-colored textured brick with soldier course window lintels and stone sills. The brick parapet is adorned with horizontal decorated bands of terra-cotta terminated at their ends by fasces with flame-like tops. The top of the parapet is stepped for emphasis and has a stone coping.

A great number of artists, musicians, and writers stayed at the hotel over the years. It was home to Maeve Brennan and Ernest Hemingway; P. G. Wodehouse and Tennessee Williams both signed its guest register. Toward the latter half of the century, it had become fairly rundown, but was renovated and reopened as the Washington Square Hotel around 2000.

The ground floor of the annex houses the North Square Restaurant.

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