Residence Inn by Marriott New York Manhattan Midtown East (New York City, New York)

 hotel, high-rise, 1931_construction

188-foot, 17-story Renaissance-revival hotel completed in 1931. Designed by Sugarman & Berger, it opened as a tenement apartment building. It was later converted to a hotel called the Helmsley Middletowne, which closed in 2010 and reopened as a Marriott Residence Inn.

The symmetrical 7-bay facade is clad in reddish-brown brick above a modernized ground floor of glass and stainless-steel, with opaque, pale-green glass panels across the top and at the piers, except for the end piers (which are stone), and the piers framing the central entrance bay (also stone). The entrance has three glass sliding doors under a stainless-steel canopy, topped by letters spelling out "Residence Inn". The two end bays are narrower than the rest, with a small storefront in the east bay, and a recessed service entrance with two opaque glass-and-metal doors below a metal vent in the west bay. The other bays all have three floor-to-ceiling panes of glass.

At the 2nd floor, projecting pre-cast stone panels clad the middle bay above the entrance, with a 2-over-2 window with sidelights framed in black metal. The rest of the upper floors are brick, with tripartite windows in each bay, and rows of vertical lines of angled brick between the 2nd-floor bays. The 2nd-floor windows also have brick lintels, and a string course of vertical bricks above a narrow row of angled, notched bricks underlines the 3rd floor, broken by silver metal vents below each window. Additional vents are located below the windows on the rest of the floors as well. A pair of projecting flagpoles frame the middle bay at the 3rd floor.

The two outer bays on each end set back above the 9th floor, where a notched, angled band course runs across the facade, changing to a band of alternating recessed and flat bricks at each window bay. White stone coping caps the setbacks. Additional setbacks occur above the full 11th floor, the two bays flanking the center bay above the 13th floor, the full 14th floor, and the full 15th floor, each marked by stone coping.

The side elevations are clad in the same brick, with a couple bays of single-windows. The hotel contains 211 guest rooms. The ground-floor storefront at the east end is occupied by La Rukico Tailors.