This is the Carlton Hotel at 88 Madison Avenue at 29th Street. I had no plans to photograph this building, had never seen it before and knew nothing about it. But walking by it at night, I found the lighting on this Beaux-Arts building quite spectacular. My research both on and offline returned very little - so I really had to dig. I learned the most from the recent press. Built as the Seville Hotel in 1904, it was in steady decline until it recently underwent a 5-year $60 million dollar renovation led by starchitect David Rockwell. One of the high points of the renovation was the discovery of a stained glass skylight dome (believed to have Tiffany glass) hidden above a dropped ceiling above an old barroom and severly blackened - read the story here . This dome was restored and installed over the new restaurant Country with chef Geoffrey Zakarian - a lot of positive buzz on this place. A new three-story annex serves as entrance with a limestone balcony, a turn-of-the-century curved staircase and a waterfall. One of these days I need to get in there and see that dome...