Park Savoy Shelter

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9-story Beaux-Arts homeless shelter completed in 1911 as a hotel. Designed by Charles E. Birge and R. H. MacDonald, it operated as the Park Savoy Hotel, until 2018, when it was converted to a shelter for 150 men, run by Westhab, a company that manages shelters and affordable housing.

It is clad in brown brick above a 2-story limestone base painted a cream color. The ground floor has a central entrance with a recessed glass door below a metal canopy. The spaces to either side formerly contained restaurant storefronts. The 2nd floor has five bays of single-windows with the middle one framed by pilasters that have a pair of scrolled brackets supporting the modest cornice that caps the base.

The upper floors also have five bays of windows, with brick surrounds. Those on the 3rd, 5th, & 7th floors have square keystones and impost blocks above the windows, while the 4th, 6th, & 8th floors have only the keystones. Stone band courses divide the shaft into three 2-story sections, also serving as sill courses for the windows on the lower floor of each section. The windows at the 4th, 6th, & 8th floors have stone balconettes with iron railings and squared brackets decorated with rosettes on the undersides.

The top floor is stone-faced, with projecting stone pilasters between each bay, each of which features a projecting panel edged with carved foliate ornament and topped by lions' heads surmounted by large scrolled brackets that carry the black metal roof cornice crowning the facade.

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