No. 237 Madison Condominium

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162-foot, 15-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1927 as a hotel. Designed by Andrew J. Thomas, it opened as the Hotel Duane, and later was operated as the Executive Hotel.

The front facade is clad in brown brick with a pattern of projecting bricks, over a tall limestone ground floor. There are three round-arched openings in the center of the ground floor, with a door in the center one. The arches spring from the capitals of the Corinthian columns in between. On either side there is a shorter doorway in stone surrounds, both topped by a large carved circle. A rounded cornice caps the base.

The upper floors are divided into four bays of paired windows. The windows in each paired are separated by a thin, tan stone column, and two additional column run up the inside edge of the middle bays. A black metal air-conditioning vent is cut below the outer window in each pair. At the 11th floor the end bays have round-arched windows topped by a corbel course marking setbacks on both ends. The middle two bays merge into one bay of three windows at the 12th floor, with round-arches at the 13th, also topped by a corbel course at a setback. The end bays have two more 2-story set-back sections with round-arched windows at the top floor of each section. The top floors of the middle section is framed by rope moldings and has a large round-arched window. The center section is crowned by a steep-pitched tile roof. The south elevation is clad in dark-brown brick.

It was renovated in 1984 when the property was bought by Morgans Hotel Group which added an interior by Andrée Putman, and again in 2008. In 2020 the hotel was converted to small rental apartments.

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