The Ned NoMad New York Hotel (New York City, New York)

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179-foot, 12-story Beaux-Arts hotel building completed in 1903. Designed by Schickel & Ditmars as an office building known as the Johnston Building, after owner Caroline H. Johnston, the building is notable for its rounded corner bay which rises twelve stories to a tempietto (dome and cupola).

The Broadway facade spans five bays, with paired windows at the upper floors, and double-windows with angled black awnings at the 2nd & 3rd floor. The ground floor's large plate-glass show-windows are topped by black metal awnings and transoms with patterned tiles, surmounted by a metal frieze and cornice. The historic and elaborate arched entryway features foliated brackets, lions' head masks, festoons, dentils, and two angled flagpoles. The show-windows extend to the corner bay, which is semi-circular above the ground floor, with three windows per floor. The 28th Street elevation also spans five bays, with a service entrance at the east end. The 3-story base is capped by a cornice above cartouches over the window bays and lions' heads with festoons at the piers.

The 4th floor has scrolled keystones above the windows, and a dentiled band course on top. The 5th-9th floors feature bracketed window sills. Cartouches intersect the cornice above the 9th floor; the 10th floor has arched windows and larger cartouches at the piers, with a dentiled and modillioned cornice above. The 11th floor has scrolled keystones over the windows, and at the 12th floor the piers have cartouches at their tops. A corbeled cornice caps both facades, and a dome tops the corner tower. The south and east elevations are clad in brown brick, with one bay of windows at the east side, and a hodgepodge of windows on the south side.

On 28th Street, an older 5-story townhouse was incorporated int the hotel. It is clad in white stone, with a 2-story base , with a metal-and-glass ground floor. The 2nd floor has a wide band of multi-paned windows. The upper floors each have three bays. The 3rd floor is topped by a cornice with festoons and garlands. The top two floors have fluted pillars, and are surmounted by a white roof cornice with metopes.

The NoMad Hotel opened in 2012, following a full restoration of the building to its original grandeur with interiors by French designer Jacques Garcia for Sydell Group. The design of the hotel was inspired by the Parisian flat of Garcia’s youth. Renovated and transformed at a cost of $60 million more than a century later by David Rockwell, the hotel’s "Tiffany-style glass skylight" on the mezzanine was discovered under layers of paint “used to deter air raids during World War II.” Th building went into foreclosure in April 2019, and then reopened as The Ned NoMad Hotel. The hotel contains 168 guest rooms. Much of the ground floor is occupied by Cecconi's restaurant.