Moderne Hotel

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7-story hotel completed in 1894 as a 6-story residential building. It was converted to a hotel in 1999, with a new top floor and glassed-in roof deck. The 2-story base is framed in grey stone; the end piers are lightly rusticated at the ground floor, with engaged, rounded pilasters above, springing from elaborate bases and overlaying rough-faced rusticated at the 2nd floor. The ground floor has a central entrance with a glass door up a few steps, framed by grey brick with a pair of slim, modern light fixtures and topped by a stainless-steel panel with the word "MODERNE". There is a large plate-glass window on either side, topped by black-and-white stripes sloped canvas awnings. The 2nd floor has a wide band of windows, topped by another, wider, striped awning.

The 3rd & 4th (and bottom half of the 5th) floors are clad in red brick, with three bays of windows. At the 3rd floor they are topped by rough-faced splayed lintels. A brown stone string course sets off the 4th floor, which has windows slightly recessed between the piers. Dogstooth brick patterns decorate the brick spandrels between the 4th & 5th floors, where there are round-arched windows with rough-faced architraves springing from stylized brown terra-cotta capitals on the piers. Above the arches, the rest of the 5th floor, as well as the 6th, is clad in yellow-beige stone. The 6th floor has round-arched windows, with a stone sill course; near the edges the sill course projectis around rounded, engaged colonnettes that have elaborate lion-face bases. At the top of the 6th floor, between the colonnettes, is an ornate terra-cotta cornice with a frieze and dentil course. Spheres top the colonnettes just above the cornice.

The newer 7th floor is faced in beige concrete, with a central triple-window. Above, glass panels enclose the roof deck. The hotel contains 37 guest rooms.

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