45 Times Square Hotel (New York City, New York)

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184-foot, 16-story hotel completed in 1928 as an office building. Designed by Ellis, Aaronson & Heidrich, it was converted to a hotel in 2004, named Hotel QT with an interior by Lindy Roy with lighting by L’Observatoire International. It was reopened as the Grace, a Room Mate Hotel, in 2014. It is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story stone base. The lower two floors have been re-clad in grey granite, while the 3rd floor is limestone. The ground floor has a large plate-glass window and the hotel entrance to its right, under a square, grey metal canopy; the hotel's name is silver lettering on the front of the canopy. At either end there is a metal service door, with a window above the eastern one. The floors above are organized into three wide bays and a narrower bay at the east. The 2nd floor has joined, paired double-windows in the wide bays, and a more square window in the east bay. The 3rd floor, above a dentil course, has paired windows in the main bays, and joined, paired double-windows (with black metal mullions between them) in the east bay, a pattern continued on the upper floors.

Another dentil course sets off the upper floors, which have black metal vents below most of the windows, cut into the brick spandrels, which have vertical ribs. The piers run uninterrupted to the top of the 10th floor, where there is another dentil course. Diamond shapes in the brick spandrels mark setbacks above the 11th, 13th, & 15th floors.

The east elevation is also clad in brick, with two bays of windows near the front, and a metal vent pipe running up the middle of the wall. The hotel contains 139 guest rooms. Formerly under the management as the The Grace, a Room-Mate Hotel, it is now the 45 Times Square.

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