Fitzpatrick Manhattan Hotel (New York City, New York)

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177-foot, 15-story Neo-Classical hotel completed in 1927. Designed by Schwartz & Gross as an apartment building, it was converted to a hotel in 1985 for Irish hotel chain Fitzpatrick. It is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base, rusticated on the ground floor, where there is a grey granite water table. The central entrance has glass-and-metal double-doors below a red-and-black metal canopy. To the south is a single glass door next to a projecting triple-window bay with angled side panes, all under a red awning. On the north end, the arrangement is reversed, with a metal service door to the left of a projecting window bay, also covered by a red awning.

Above a stone band course, the 2nd & 3rd floors have four bays of paired windows; those at the 3rd floor are round-arched, with spiral colonnettes between them, diminutive Corinthian capitals on the colonnettes, and half-capitals on the framing pilasters, with rope moldings above the arches, which are grouped together below a wider arch at each bay that is decorated by a heraldic shield and foliate ornament. Carved spandrel panels between the floors have additional foliate ornament, and are covered by red awnings. Five flagpoles project from the piers, between the 2nd & 3rd floors, and the base is capped by a dentiled band course.

The upper floors have four bays, with triple-windows in the middle, and double-windows in the end bays; the triple-windows have wide metal mullions. At the 4th floor there are stone quoins at the edges, and a stone band course with a decorative frieze setting off the floors above. These floors have stone sills and brick lintels at the windows.

The 13th floor is set off by a dentiled band course and has stone enframements around the window bays. It is topped by a stone cornice with modillions. The top two floors have paired windows in each bay, round-arched at the 15th floor, and grouped into 2-story enframements that culminate in round-arches at the top. Like the windows at the 2nd-3rd floors, there are colonnettes with Corinthian capitals and carved spandrels. A modest stone band course marks the roof line.

The south elevation is divided into two wings by a central light well. The west wing has a bay of single-windows at its center. There are some bays of single-windows in the inner-facing walls of the light well, as well as one bay of double-windows on both the rear south-facing and east-facing walls.

The hotel has 91 guest rooms. Besides the lobby, the ground floor contains The Fitz, a restaurant and pub.

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