The Quin Hotel

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184-foot, 17-story Renaissance-revival hotel completed in 1925. Designed by Emery Roth and Nathan Korn, it opened as the Buckingham Apartment Hotel. It is clad in brown brick above a 2-story limestone base with rusticated piers. The south facade on 57th Street has seven bays, and the east facade on the avenue spans five bays. They are equally-spaced at the base on the south facade, and narrower at the north end of the east facade; on the south facade the upper floors alternate bays of double-windows with bays of three single-windows, while on the east facade the south bay has single-windows, the next two have groups of three single-windows, and the northern two have double-windows (except for at the 3rd floor, which has single-windows).

The main entrance is in the 2nd bay from the west on 57th Street, with glass double-doors framed by narrow sidelights, below a square metal canopy. The far west bay has two metal service doors, and the other bays have plate-glass show-windows, which continue onto the east facade (with glass doors at the bays at the southeast corner). The bays containing the hotel's restaurant, The Wayfarer, have sloped, blue canvas awnings above the ground floor, and additional plate-glass show-windows at the 2nd floor, with both floors grouped into dark-grey stone moldings. Above the main entrance, the 2nd floor glass is overlaid with a grid of dark-red metal squares and navy-blue metal rods. A pair of projecting flagpoles are mounted on the piers around this bay, and the base is capped by a dentiled stone cornice.

The upper floors have stone sills below the windows, joining the three single-windows in the wider bays. At the 3rd floor the single-windows have limestone surrounds embellished with carvings of urns, and topped by entablatures with cherub facdes and pediments broken by the brown metal air-conditioning vents located below the 4th-floor windows (except for at the eastern bay). Lighter-colored replacement brick is apparent at the narrower bays. At the 12th-13th floors the 3-window bays have carved stone spandrels between the two floors, and 2-story engaged stone columns between each window, with Corinthian capitals; round-arches filled with carved stone medallions and foliate ornament top the 13th-floor windows at these bays. A band course sets off the 14th floor, which has paneled piers, and is surmounted by a glass railing around the 14th-floor lower roof line (above a dentiled brick parapet).

The east facade matches the same design. The set-back 15th floor is topped by a small 2-story penthouse with a single bay of triple-windows on the west, south, and east sides, capped by a bracketed brick cornice. The upper part of the north elevation is clad in brown brick, painted red at the east end. There is a bay of narrow single-windows at the east edge, and another bay of single-windows at the middle.

The hotel re-opened in 2013 after extensive re-modelling by Perkins-Eastman as The Quin Hotel, with 208 guest rooms and suites. The ground floor is occupied by The Wayfarer restaurant.

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