Courtyard New York Manhattan/Midtown East Hotel (New York City, New York)

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364-foot, 31-story International-style hotel completed in 1966 as an office building. Designed by Emery Roth & Sons, it opened as the MacMillan Building, named for its lead tenant, the MacMillan Publishing Company. It was adaptively reused/converted in 1997 to a hotel, with floors 1 and 12-30 housing a Marriott Courtyard, while floors 2-11 house condominiums owned by Sloan-Kettering hospital which are used for residential treatment of cancer patients.

The building is clad in a curtain wall of grey-bronze glass and grey steel with black metal spandrels. The east facade along the avenue is ten bays wide. Above the ground floor, the piers of the 6-story base are fluted, and each bay has four window panes; the thin mullions project from the facade. The 6th floor has recessed bays. The hotel's main entrance is in the 4th bay from the south, with a set of glass doors and a glass revolving door below a bronze canopy. The other bays have storefronts.

The south facade on 52nd Street is five bays wide, and the north facade on 53rd spans seven bays. These all also have plate-glass storefronts, except for the middle bay on 53rd Street, which has the Memorial Sloan-Kettering entrance with glass doors under a stainless-steel canopy, and the western two bays, which have loading docks.

Above the base, the facades set back on the north, east, and south sides, and again above the 11th floor. There are no visible piers above the base, and the L-shaped upper tower continues to a flat roof line, with mechanical floors at the top shielded by black metal vents.

The hotel portion contains 321 guest rooms. Besides the lobbies, the ground floor is occupied by a Wells Fargo Bank branch, and a Duane-Reade pharmacy.