The Gregorian

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13-story Beaux-Arts hotel completed in 1903. Designed by Clarence True, it opened as the Hotel Gregorian. The hotel flourished in the 1920s but its fortunes declined in the '30s, devolving to a flophouse. Later in the century it was renovated and reopened as the New Murray Hill Hotel, and then in the late 1990s as the Comfort Inn Manhattan before re-branding briefly as the Hotel 35 in 2014, and then the Gregory Hotel in 2015. As the Comfort Inn, the three lower floors had been painted bright orange and beige, but these were repainted to white during the 2014 conversion.

The facade, five bays wide, is faced in limestone on the bottom three floors, with bold banding, and in buff-colored brick on the upper floors, with limestone window surrounds. The central entrance is flanked by storefronts and covered by a rounded canopy. Above it is a narrow double-windows with a triangular pediment on small scrolled brackets. The bays to either side project forward, with narrow recessed windows, and a cornice across the tops. The wider end bays have round-arched windows topped by large scrolled keystones supporting continuations of the cornice, projecting out at the centers to support to projecting bay windows at the 3rd floor end bays. These windows have angled side panes and flat middle panes, with stone pilasters in between. The two more inner bays have regular paired windows, and the narrow center bay has a smaller window. Each of the four outer bays is topped by a projecting section, corresponding to the bay windows at the floors above.

At the 4th-12th floors, the narrow center bay has a small, almost square window, while the other four bays project outward with angled sides, creating an undulating facade. The three windows in each of these bays have grey stone enframements, and there is a small projecting cornice above each bay, and a continuous sill course extending all the way across the facade at the base of each floor. Balustrades top the projecting bays above the 12th floor; the top floor has a square-headed window at each bay, with paneled piers and carved wreaths flanking each window in the four main bays. A final cornice caps the roof line.

There is a vertical sign attached to the 3rd floor at the middle bay. The east and west elevations are clad in banded brown brick with a few bays of windows. There is a shallow indentation up the center of the west facade, bridged by a round-arch at the top. The ground floor is occupied by The Liquor Cabinet, and Brendan's restaurant.

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