The hotel seen from across the street in an archival black and white photograph: red brick above cast-iron balconies, striped awnings over the ground floor, two figures far down the sidewalk.

THEPARLOREST. 1909 · NEW YORK

In the parlor nobody asked what you did, only what you were working on.

A GUEST, 1934

Forty-six rooms above a street that has changed around them four times over. The building has been a residence, a boarding house and a hotel, sometimes all three in the same winter, and the floors still keep the shape of every one of those arrangements.

We have kept the parts that were worth keeping — the iron stair, the transom windows, the tall shutters that fold back into the reveal — and quietly replaced the plumbing.

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ACCOMMODATIONS

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THE PETITE

QUEEN BED • 200 SQ FT / 19 SQ M • COURTYARD

The smallest room we let, and the one we are least willing to change. A brass bed against the long wall, a marble washstand, one tall window onto the courtyard where the noise of the avenue arrives second-hand.

Built for one person with somewhere to be in the morning. Everything in it is within reach of the bed, which is either the point or the problem depending on the guest.

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A compact room with a brass bed, white linen and an oxblood throw against blush plaster walls.

A nightstand with a pleated brass lamp, a cream rotary telephone and a stack of clothbound books.

A tall window with plum velvet drapes half drawn over a glowing curtain and a cast-iron radiator.

THE CORNER KING

KING BED • 420 SQ FT / 39 SQ M • TWO EXPOSURES

Windows on two walls, which in this building means light from the middle of the morning until the middle of the afternoon and a view of rooftops rather than of anyone's office. A carved headboard, a chaise in worn rose velvet, parquet under layered rugs.

The corner rooms are the ones long-stay residents held on to, and the floor plan has never quite recovered from how well they were built.

From $680

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A corner room with windows on two walls, a carved headboard and a rose velvet chaise on layered rugs.

A deep clawfoot bath in a marble bathroom with brass taps and a small stained-glass transom.

Looking up the well of the cast-iron stair as it coils toward a skylight against blush walls.

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The lobby in an archival photograph: a sweeping cast-iron stair, potted palms, a long desk with brass rails and a wall of key pigeonholes behind it.

SINCE 1909

A residence first, a hotel by accident, and a working building every year in between.

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DINING & BAR

BREAKFAST 7–11 • DINNER 5:30–11 • BAR UNTIL LATE

One dining room and one bar, both on the ground floor, both open to the street as well as to the house. The kitchen cooks a short menu and changes it when the market makes it change.

Residents ate here when the building was let by the month, and the room has kept that register — you can arrive alone with a book and nobody will make an occasion of it.

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The dining room in the evening: dark timber wainscot, marble tables, bentwood chairs and lit candles.

A small bar with a carved back-bar, mirrored shelves, a brass rail and oxblood leather stools.

Roast chicken with herbs on cream china beside a glass of red wine and heavy silver cutlery.

OPEN YEAR ROUND

Rooms are held for the night, the week and the season, in that order of preference.

From $395/night46 rooms & suites000 West ○○ Street

THEPARLOREST. 1909 · NEW YORK

Rooms for tonight, or for the winter.

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