| Seville Hotel | |
| Location: | 22 East 29th Street (88 Madison Avenue) Manhattan, New York |
| Coordinates: | 40.7446°N -73.9856°W |
| Built: | 1904 (original) 1907 (annex) |
| Architect: | Harry Allan Jacobs (original) Charles T. Mott (annex) |
| Architecture: | Beaux-Arts |
| Added: | February 24, 2005 |
| Refnum: | 05000088 |
| Designated Other2 Name: | NYC Landmark |
| Designated Other2 Date: | March 6, 2018 |
| Designated Other2 Abbr: | NYCL |
| Designated Other2 Number: | 2602 |
| Designated Other2 Link: | New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |
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The James New York – NoMad (formerly the Seville Hotel and Carlton Hotel) is a hotel at 22 East 29th Street, at the southwest corner with Madison Avenue in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The original 12-story hotel on Madison Avenue was completed in 1904 to designs by Harry Allan Jacobs. The 11-story annex to the west was designed by Charles T. Mott and completed in 1907, while a three-story annex at 88 Madison Avenue to the south was finished in 2004 and designed by the Rockwell Group. The hotel is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The original portions of the hotel were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. The facade is divided horizontally into three sections and is largely made of brick, terracotta, and limestone above the first story. Each facade is also split vertically into bays, with ornamentation such as balconies and curved metal windows. The hotel's original public rooms, which included a lobby and restaurants, were in the basement and first floor; many of these spaces have since been modified. The modern-day lobby is within the annex at 88 Madison Avenue and leads to restaurant spaces. The upper stories contain 360 guest units, which face either the street or three interior light courts.
The developer Maitland E. Graves began constructing the hotel in 1901 and named it the Seville, but he ran out of money before the hotel was finished. A syndicate that included Louis C. Raegener took over the project in 1903 and opened the Seville Hotel the next year. The Seville was extremely popular among visitors soon after it opened, prompting Raegener to add an annex between 1906 and 1907. Raegener and his company, the Roy Realty Company, continued to operate the Seville until 1946. The Hotel Seville's popularity began to decline in the mid-20th century as businesses and entertainment venues relocated uptown, and it became a single room occupancy hotel in the late 20th century. The Seville was renamed the Carlton in 1987. The Wolfson family bought the hotel in the late 1990s and renovated it extensively in the early 2000s and in 2010s. The GFI Capital Resources Group bought the hotel in 2015 and renovated it again, reopening it as the James NoMad Hotel in 2018.
The James New York – NoMad is at 22 East 29th Street, at the southwest corner with Madison Avenue, in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.[1] [2] The land lot is L-shaped, wrapping around another structure at the northwest corner of 28th Street and Madison Avenue, and measures .[3] The original hotel and annex have a frontage of long on Madison Avenue to the east, on 29th Street to the north, and on 28th Street to the west. Neighboring buildings include the Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal to the north, the Prince George Hotel and Hotel Latham to the south, the New York Life Building to the southeast,[3] and the Emmet Building and the Redbury New York to the east.[3]
Prior to the present hotel's construction, the site had been occupied by the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in 1844. This was replaced in 1875 by the Rutgers Presbyterian Church, which moved uptown in 1890. The Scottish Rite Hall acquired the Rutgers Presbyterian Church building in 1887.[4] The structure was used as a Masonic Hall until 1901, when it was sold.[5] [6]
The James New York – NoMad (originally the Seville Hotel) is designed in the Beaux-Arts style. It consists of the 12-story original hotel at the corner of Madison Avenue and 29th Street, as well as an 11-story annex in the middle of the block on 28th and 29th Streets. There is also a three-story annex in the middle of the block on Madison Avenue, which includes the hotel's lobby. The original portion of the hotel was one of the first buildings designed by Harry Allan Jacobs, who was also responsible for the Hotel Marseilles and the Andrew Freedman Home. The 28th and 29th Street annex was the work of architect Charles T. Mott, who specialized in row houses in New York City.[7]
The facade is vertically divided into four bays on Madison Avenue, three on 28th Street, and nine on 29th Street (six in the original building and three in the annex). A chamfered corner with one bay connects the Madison Avenue and 29th Street elevations of the facade. Each elevation is divided horizontally into three parts; a base, midsection, and capital. The base consists of the basement and first three stories; the midsection comprises the fourth through tenth stories; and the capital consists of the eleventh and twelfth stories. The three sections are separated from each other by cornices. Most of the windows have been replaced over the years.
The original part of the building is U-shaped with a light court facing south, while the annex is I-shaped with light courts facing west and east. There is an areaway with an iron-pipe railing along both Madison Avenue and 29th Street, behind which the basement windows are visible. A three-story annex on 88 Madison Avenue was completed in 2004, supplanting the hotel's original lobby at 22 East 29th Street.
The basement is clad in granite ashlar with rectangular windows. Much of the first story contains a facade of rusticated limestone blocks, while the corners are decorated with limestone quoins. The Seville Hotel's original main entrance is through a slightly protruding portico on 29th Street, The portico consists of Ionic columns in antis, with Tuscan or Doric pilasters on the outside, all of which support an entablature. There is also a canopy above the entrance, dating from the 2010s. At ground level, on both sides of the 29th Street entrance, are high round-arched openings with concave frames, balustrades, and keystones flanked by carvings of oak leaves. The southern three bays on Madison Avenue have similar round-arched openings, but the keystones are not flanked by carvings. The chamfered corner has an entrance, topped by a round arch with a keystone, balustrade, and rough stone blocks. The northernmost bay on Madison Avenue and the easternmost bay on 29th Street include a rectangular metal-framed window at the first story, which is divided into six panes by mullions and a transom bar.
The second and third stories of the original building have limestone-framed rectangular window openings. Some of these openings retain their original windows, which consisted of double-hung sash windows flanked by sidelights, Almost all of the second-story windows on 29th Street and Madison Avenue have protruding limestone balconettes with decorative iron railings. There are guttae and keystones on the second-story windows' lintels. Some of the bays are wider than the others and contain large console brackets below the balconette. On the third story, there are oval terracotta cartouches depicting lions' heads and foliage between each of the windows. Each bay includes rectangular windows with iron railings and is flanked by brackets. The chamfered corner has similar decorations, except that the third-story window is a round arch. A cornice with modillions and dentils runs above the third story.On the fourth to tenth stories, the facade of the original hotel is largely made of brick with limestone or terracotta trim, and the window arrangement is similar to that on the base. The narrow bays on Madison Avenue and 29th Street have rectangular window openings with slightly protruding limestone frames; the sills and lintels in these bays are both supported by brackets. The wide bays are clad in metal and curve outward; each bay is divided into three vertical sections by mullions and contain scrolled spandrel panels. These metal bays are flanked by quoins and are decorated with curved cornices and guilloché panels above the fifth and eighth stories. The chamfered corner has a similar metal bay flanked by a strip of terracotta. There are several bays of tiny rectangular windows on both Madison Avenue and 29th Street, including one on each side of the chamfered corner. Above the tenth story runs a cornice with a Greek key pattern, as well as curved hoods that protrude from each of the wide bays.
The original hotel's top two stories constitute the crown and are clad in red brick. Each bay contains a masonry frame that surrounds flat-arched windows the eleventh and twelfth stories; there are also keystones above the eleventh stories. Double-height vertical panels are placed between each bay. Above the twelfth story are large console brackets and dentils, as well as a protruding metal cornice with modillions. The northwestern corner of the structure includes a single-story penthouse. The southern elevation of the original facade is split into two wings by the light court. Both wings are clad in plain brick and have three bays of windows that are flush with the facade. Two angled metal bays are also visible in the light court itself.
The annex faces both 28th and 29th Street; on both streets. the facade is three stories tall. The facade of the annex is similar in design to that of the original building, although it is only 11 stories tall and lacks some of the original building's details. On 29th Street, the basement is recessed from the areaway and has rectangular windows. The ground story contains a rusticated-limestone facade with three round-arched windows, similar to those in the original building. On the second through eleventh stories, the central bay includes rectangular windows with slightly protruding frames, while the outer bays have curving metal windows, similar to in the original building. The limestone-and-brick strips of the original building extend to the second and third floors of the annex, and there are cartouches between the third-story windows. The fourth through eleventh stories are clad in brick. A cornice with a Greek key pattern runs above the tenth story, and a protruding metal cornice with modillions runs above the eleventh story.
The 28th Street elevation of the annex is also three bays wide and is a simplified version of the 29th Street elevation. The basement is not visible, and the first story is shorter than in the rest of the building. At ground level, there was an entrance flanked by storefront windows. The central second-floor window formerly had a molded frame with a cartouche above it, but this cartouche was removed in the mid-2010s, when double-height openings were added to all three bays. Above the base, the facade is made of brick. The central bay contains rectangular windows with slightly protruding frames, while the outer bays have angled metal windows flanked by quoins. There is an additional, smaller rectangular window on each story between the central and easternmost bays. A cornice runs above the eleventh story.
The western elevation of the annex can be seen from a neighboring plaza on 28th Street. This elevation has a plain brick facade, within which are three bays of angled metal windows. There are also several bays of rectangular windows in varying sizes, which are flush with the facade; they are mostly double-hung windows. The eastern elevation also has two angled metal bays within a plain brick facade.
Originally, the hotel's main public rooms were in the basement and first floor, while the upper stories housed the guestrooms. There was a main entrance on 29th Street, as well as a side entrance at the corner of Madison Avenue and 29th Street (which led to the basement). The three-story annex that was completed in 2004 covers .