Huntersmoon Hall (New York City, New York)

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9-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1925 as a hotel. It most recently operated as the Marion Hotel (since 1987) until the early 2000s, when it was converted to low-income residential use. The facade is clad in red brick and tan brick, and grey cast-iron above a 2-story rusticated limestone base painted a cream color, with a grey granite water table. The facade is symmetrical, with a central main entrance that has a recessed glass door, sidelight, and transom below a small, rounded, red canvas canopy. To either side is a narrow double-window and triple-window with molded surrounds and keystones, and at both ends is a black metal service door. A broad, black cast-iron band caps the ground floor, with fine ribs along its center and a shield at both ends.

The upper floors have two bays of double-windows abutting each other in the middle, and double-window end bays. At the 2nd floor they have beveled stone surrounds with keystones and drip moldings of ribbon-entwined bellflowers. A pair of brackets adorned with snarling lion faces frame the tops of the middle bays, supporting a stone balcony at the center of the facade that sits just above an egg-and-dart molding that caps the base. The front wall of the balcony has a row of circular openings.

The two middle bays above the base are cast-iron from the 3rd-8th floors, with paneled pilasters decorated with hanging bellflowers. The spandrels between floors have cartouches in both bays, and triglyphs between the pilasters. These bays are surrounded by tan brick, beveled at the inner edges; the upper edge is beveled stone instead. The outer bays are red brick, with more tan brick at the ends. These windows also have black iron framing, and brackets stone sills, along with splayed brick lintels with limestone keystones. A flat stone band sets off the top floor, which has single-windows in the two middle bays, and simple recessed panels in the brick piers around them. The facade is crowned by a bracketed black metal roof cornice.