Hotel Belleclaire
USA /
New Jersey /
West New York /
West 77th Street, 250
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ West New York
World / United States / New York
hotel, Art Nouveau / Jugendstil (architecture)
250 West 77th Street
New York, NY 10024
(212) 362-7700
www.hotelbelleclaire.com/
The Belleclaire Hotel was designed by Stein, Cohen, & Roth and built between 1901-03 in a Art Nouveau style with Secessionist elements. The Hotel Belleclaire is a ten-story building executed in red brick with limestone, terra cotta and metal detailing. Composed of three symmetrically massed pavilions with an entrance court on 77th Street and two light courts on the south elevation, the easternmost pavilion has been adjusted to conform with the angle of Broadway.
The Broadway tower and side street elevations are horizontally divided in the traditional manner with a base, central section and crowning element. The two-story base is of smooth rusticated limestone, and now includes shopfronts at the first story replacing or obscuring the original fenestration. This consisted of elliptically depressed arched windows with curvilinear muntins and mullions which were of an Art Nouveau character as was the metal railing which surrounded the building. The main entrances to the lobby and restaurant on Broadway are two stories in height, with depressed arches, originally flanked by engaged columns, and surmounted by carved copestones. The soffits of these entrances contain a carved leaf pattern, possibly laurel, which calls to mind the dome of the famous Vienna Secession building of 1897 by J. M. Olbrich.
The second story windows are square headed and contain the highly individual twelve-over-three wooden sash which Roth used at the upper stories and which calls to mind Secessionist motifs, and even the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Scottish architect whose work is related to the Secessionist and Art Nouveau movements.
New York, NY 10024
(212) 362-7700
www.hotelbelleclaire.com/
The Belleclaire Hotel was designed by Stein, Cohen, & Roth and built between 1901-03 in a Art Nouveau style with Secessionist elements. The Hotel Belleclaire is a ten-story building executed in red brick with limestone, terra cotta and metal detailing. Composed of three symmetrically massed pavilions with an entrance court on 77th Street and two light courts on the south elevation, the easternmost pavilion has been adjusted to conform with the angle of Broadway.
The Broadway tower and side street elevations are horizontally divided in the traditional manner with a base, central section and crowning element. The two-story base is of smooth rusticated limestone, and now includes shopfronts at the first story replacing or obscuring the original fenestration. This consisted of elliptically depressed arched windows with curvilinear muntins and mullions which were of an Art Nouveau character as was the metal railing which surrounded the building. The main entrances to the lobby and restaurant on Broadway are two stories in height, with depressed arches, originally flanked by engaged columns, and surmounted by carved copestones. The soffits of these entrances contain a carved leaf pattern, possibly laurel, which calls to mind the dome of the famous Vienna Secession building of 1897 by J. M. Olbrich.
The second story windows are square headed and contain the highly individual twelve-over-three wooden sash which Roth used at the upper stories and which calls to mind Secessionist motifs, and even the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Scottish architect whose work is related to the Secessionist and Art Nouveau movements.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°46'56"N 73°58'52"W
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- Upper West Side 0.7 km
- Lincoln Square 0.9 km
- Manhattan 0.9 km
- Riverside Park South 1 km
- Riverside Park 2 km
- James Braddock Park 2.9 km
- North Bergen, New Jersey 3.7 km
- Hudson County, New Jersey 10 km
- Queens 17 km
- The Palisades 20 km
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