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New York Architecture
Images-Upper East Side THE ESSEX HOUSE |
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architect |
Frank Grad |
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location |
160 Central Park South |
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date |
1930 (the condominium conversion was in 1974. The hotel has more than 500 rooms and a business center and spa.) |
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style |
Art Deco |
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The building is clad in brown brick and faces Central Park with large guestroom windows and decorated setbacks. A 1974 renovation replaced part of the hotel rooms with 199 condominium apartments spread throughout the building, as opposed to a separate residential section. The lobby has massive fluted columns of black marble and it extends through the block as a corridor flanked by the elevator banks. |
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Hotel |
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| Robert A. M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin
and Thomas Mellins, "New York 1930, Architecture and Urbanism Between the World Wars," (Rizzoli, 1987), noted that "there was little architectural rhetoric in the design; so little in fact that the hotel erected a huge illuminated sign on the roof to identify itself." |
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links |
http://www.essexhouse.com/westin_home.cfm |