Seville Hotel
Also known as: Hotel Seville; Carlton Hotel
Why it's listed
Occupying a corner of Madison Avenue and East 29th Street in Manhattan, this Beaux-Arts hotel was built in two stages between 1901 and 1907. The original twelve-story steel-frame section has a limestone base, red brick upper floors, white terra-cotta trim, and curved copper bays. An eleven-story addition runs through the block to East 28th Street in a simplified version of the same design. Investor Maitland E. Graves commissioned the building in 1901, and the architects are recorded as Harry Allen Jacobs and Charles T. Mott. The hotel catered to tourists and to buyers visiting New York's garment and dry goods trades. It was one of several hotels that rose north of Madison Square as the area shifted from fashionable housing to business use. The exterior remains largely intact. Inside, only fragments survive of the former lobby, dining room, and Tudor Room, including mosaic floors and decorative plaster ceilings, many now covered for preservation.
Significance in brief: The hotel is significant under Criteria A and C. It reflects the early twentieth-century change of the area north of Madison Square from affluent residential blocks to a commercial and hotel district. It is also a representative Beaux-Arts example of a moderately priced residential and transient hotel.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 05000088, listed February 24, 2005. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence medium).
Key facts
| Address | 22 East 29th St., New York |
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| County | Manhattan |
| Listed | February 24, 2005 |
| Reference number | 05000088 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | 1901-1907 |
| Architect / builder | Jacobs, Harry Allen; Mott, Charles T. |
| Architectural style | Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Beaux Arts |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture, Community Planning and Development |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | The exterior retains a very high degree of integrity. Few of the ornate first-floor and basement public room features survive, and many have been preserved and covered over. A new entrance and lobby addition was under construction in 2004 and is excluded from the boundaries. The hotel is listed as still in hotel use. |
| Acreage | 0.9 |
| Coordinates | 40.74462, -73.98571 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
For an income-producing building, listing (individually or as a contributing building in a district) is the gateway to the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit on qualified rehabilitation costs, often stackable with state credits. Work claiming the credit must follow the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and be approved in advance.
Listing does not restrict a private owner acting without federal money or permits; where federal funding or licensing is involved, Section 106 review applies.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 05000088.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q9076588
- This listing as JSON
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