Refinery Hotel

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150-foot, 12-story Neo-Gothic office building completed in 1930. Designed by Frederick C. Zobel as a hat factory, it spans through the block to a slightly narrower but similarly-designed facade on 39th Street. Both are clad in white brick, metal and stone above a 3-story limestone base. The building was converted from offices to a hotel in 2013, with 197 guest rooms.

The south facade has pointed-arches in the end bays, resting on grey granite plinths, and both with recessed entrances. The west bay has a service entrance; the east bay was originally the main building entrance, and now serves as the entrance to hotel's lobby bar, Winnie's. The former storefront in the middle was converted to the main hotel entrance, with four black-metal-framed windows and a doorway (offset to the right), all with transoms, and a metal canopy over the entrance. A broad stone band above the middle bay is adorned with a carved quatrefoil pattern. The arches in the end bays are flanked by very intricate bracket-like projections supporting an entablature with a pair of heraldic shields, and in the middle, a row of five square with quatrefoils. At the 2nd-3rd floor, the end bays have single-windows grouped under a 2-story, more-rounded pointed-arch, itself topped by a triangular pediment flanked by a pair of rosettes. A paneled spandrel with a rosette in the middle separates the windows of the two floors. Flanking the 2nd-story end-bay windows are pairs of eagles and miniature towers topped by triangular pediments with fleur-de-lys at the peaks. The middle two bays each have three windows with wide black metal mullions between them. The pier between the two bays matches those around the end bays, but without the eagle. There are also similar spandrels, with rosettes at the ends. The middle bays are topped by two bands of interlocking geometric patterns at the top of the 3rd floor. A band course caps the base, broken by the five piers, each topped by a shield.

The upper floors have white brick end bays with single-windows, and a wide brick pier separating the two middle bays, each with three windows divided by black iron mullions. The end-bay windows have stone sills and cornices, and at middle bays the floors are separated by trios of terra-cotta spandrel panels, each with a quatrefoil or ribboned shield in the center (alternating by floor). The top two floors are set off by an ornamented band course, and projecting ornament at the piers. The middles of these projections have lattice patterns in the middles, topped by triangular pediments at the 11th & 12th floors, and extensions of the piers that rise above the roof line. There are matching decorative spandrels in the end bays between the two floors, and the roof line has a broad quatrefoil pattern topped by a corbelled cornice.

The north facade on 39th Street has identical end bays, and the middle section is similar in design, but consists of one wider bay of four windows instead of two bays of three windows; the rest of the details are the same. The exposed upper part of the north end of the eastern elevation is clad in brown brick, with a bay of single-windows towards the center. The west elevation is clad in brown brick, with two bays of single-windows near the south end, one on the north end, and several in the middle. There is a rooftop bar with indoor and outdoor seating. The ground floor on 39th Street is occupied by Parker & Quinn restaurant.