Frant Hotel

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7-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1902 as a hotel. Designed by Neville & Bagge, it now offers temporary public housing for individuals and famiiies, and is operated by the Department of Homeless Services.

The facade is clad in tan brick and beige terra-cotta above a 2-story limestone base. There are two large center bays with double-windows, with two single-windows bays on either side. The ground floor is rusticated and has the main entrance in the western of the two center bays, atop a low stoop with grey-painted stone steps and low, scrolled sidewalls, with a brown metal-and-glass door, sidelights with metal panels at the bottom, and a transom in a segmental-arched molding with an escutcheon at the top. The double-window to the right has a matching molding and escutcheon. The single-windows have long keystones, and five acanthus-leaf console brackets carry a stone cornice across the ground floor. The 2nd floor is banded, including across the stone surrounds of the windows. There are smaller escutcheons above the center-bay windows, and scrolled keystones at the single-windows, with foliate ornament on either side, above all of the windows. Pairs of console brackets flank the two center bays, supporting two projecting sections of the cornice above the 2nd floor, with stone sidewalls and front walls at the 3rd-floor center bays.

The upper floors have splayed stone lintels with keystones at the outer bays, and stone keys framing the center bays from the 3rd-6th floors. The stone spandrels between the 3rd & 4th and 4th & 5th floors have keystones below panels of foliate ornament and scrolls. At the 5th floor the center bays are topped by triangular pediments around cartouches. Projecting panels framed by garlands top the 6th-floor windows at the center bays, and a flat stone band course sets off the top floor.

The 7th floor is banded with stone and has stone surrounds, with the banding extending across them. They have scrolled keystones at the tops. The facade is crowned by a projecting, bracketed, black metal roof cornice.

The west elevation facing a narrow alleyway is clad in brown brick, with no openings except at a light well in the middle. The east side also has a light well.