Club Quarters Downtown Hotel

 hotel, 1903_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

265-foot, 20-story Beaux-Arts hotel completed in 1903. Designed by James B. Baker as an office building for the Kuhn, Loeb Company, it is clad in limestone and grey brick. The exterior uses a modified "base-shaft-capital" design, four bays wide on William Street, and five bays on Pine Street. On William Street, the 3-story base comprises elaborately detailed, heavily rusticated piers supporting an architrave and dentiled cornice, and an elaborately detailed main entrance in the southernmost bay. The entrance has an entablature with two stylized brackets and three large modillions, topped by a cartouche and carved garlands with a flagpole. The 4th floor is transitional, and also clad in limestone, with paired, recessed windows and a stone band course capping the base.

The shaft is clad in grey brick, with lighter colored brick quoins at the corners. Each bay has a pair of square-headed windows, with each window topped by a voussoir block. Stone band courses separate each story from the next. A projecting cornice separates the shaft from the two uppermost original floors, stone faced and elaborately detailed, and a top floor stripped of detail. The Pine Street facade is almost identical to that on William Street.

In 1995, the building was renovated and converted to a Club Quarters hotel. The corner of the ground floor is occupied by The Bailey Pub & Brasserie.