The Moore Hotel

 hotel, 1912_construction

5-story Neo-Renaissance hotel completed in 1912. Designed by Paul C. Hunter as the Allerton Hotel, it is clad in brown brick on the facades facing the streets. Above a ground floor lined with glass storefronts framed by black iron pilasters, the upper floors are divided into three wings, with a slender light court between each one. The side walls are faced in beige smooth stucco. Each wing has a pair of double windows with a narrower single window in the center. A stone band course runs across the bottom of the 5th floor, and heavy copper modillioned roof cornices with deep fascia boards crown each of the three wings.

A recessed commercial entrance is located at the ground floor below the eastern light court, with glass double-doors and a large transom. At the west wing the ground floor has two segmental-arches, with tan stone keystones spanning across the brick architraves. The eastern arch contains a set of wood-and-glass double-doors, and the western one a set of French windows. The entire ground floor is topped by a band with edged in tan stone on the top and bottom, and having a rectangular, tan stone panel below each of the six double-window bays. At the 2nd floor the double-windows are topped by brick arches with small stone imposts and keystones, and diamond shapes within each arch. At the 3rd & 4th floors these windows have splayed brick lintels with keystones.

The east facade on the avenue has the same basic design, but with five bays of double-windows on the upper floors. A vertical sign is affixed to the 3rd floor of the building on 8th Avenue, near the corner. The ground floor is occupied by Felini wine bar, and Marsanne restaurant. The Gem Hotel opened here in 2008, re-opening as The Moore in 2022.

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