Hotel Belleclaire

Belleclaire Hotel
View of the Belleclaire Hotel from the intersection of Broadway and 77th Street. The facade is largely made of red brick, except at the base, where it is made of stone. The top of the hotel contains windows within a black mansard roof.
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General information
Architectural styleArt Nouveau and Secession
Location2175 Broadway, New York, NY, 10024
Coordinates40°46′57″N 73°58′52″W / 40.78250°N 73.98111°W / 40.78250; -73.98111
Construction started1901
OpeningJanuary 12, 1903
OwnerLophijo Realty Corp.[1]
ManagementTriumph Hotels
Technical details
Floor count10
Design and construction
Architect(s)Emery Roth
DeveloperAlbert Saxe
Other information
Number of rooms254
Website
Official website
DesignatedFebruary 10, 1987
Reference no.1507[2]

The Hotel Belleclaire (also the Belleclaire Hotel) is a hotel at 2175 Broadway, on the corner with West 77th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Constructed between 1901 and 1903 as one of several apartment hotels along Broadway on the Upper West Side, the Belleclaire was one of the first large buildings designed by architect Emery Roth. Its design incorporates elements of the Art Nouveau and Secession styles. The hotel is a New York City designated landmark.

The hotel building is 10 stories tall. Its facade is largely made of red brick with ornamentation made of limestone, metal, and terracotta. The limestone base is two stories high and contains a main entrance on Broadway; above the base, the building contains light courts facing north and south. The hotel's exterior includes a curved corner facing both Broadway and 77th Street, as well as a two-story mansard roof with arches. The hotel originally contained several ground-floor amenity areas for guests, each designed in a different style, although most of these spaces were demolished in the mid-20th century. The upper floors originally were divided into apartments with one to three rooms each. These apartments have been rearranged over the years into 254 guestrooms.

The hotel was developed by Albert Saxe, who had previously hired Roth to design another building on the Upper West Side. The hotel formally opened on January 12, 1903, and was originally an upscale apartment hotel, with several operators during its first two decades. The Belleclaire's ground-story rooms were replaced with shops in the 1920s, and the hotel had lost its high-class reputation by the 1930s. Following a series of modifications in the mid-20th century, the building started to physically deteriorate due to a lack of maintenance, and the Belleclaire became a single room occupancy hotel. Amid an increase in tourism to New York City, Shimmie Horn began operating the hotel in 1999 and renovated it into a boutique hotel. As of 2014, the hotel is operated by Triumph Hotels.

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  2. ^ Landmarks Preservation Commission 1987, p. 1.