Pod 39 Hotel at 145 East 39th Street

The Pod 39 Hotel, formerly Allerton House, is located at 145 East 39th Street, between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue, in Murray Hill, Midtown Manhattan. The building was constructed between 1916 and 1918 and was designated as a New York City landmark, in 2008.

This 17-story, H-plan hotel, was designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon (1878-1958) as a private club for young, single men, providing the service of a hotel. This was the third Allerton House built and had about 400 rooms. The building features a granite base and a main façade structured around three bays of windows, constructed primarily of red brick with projecting headers that ascend to a central hipped roof tower. The prominent roof garden, emphasized by three arched openings separated by twin terracotta columns, forms the crown of the building. The use of terra-cotta on the façade is in keeping with the Northern Italian Renaissance Style of architecture.

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By January 1954, the Allerton New York Corporation sold the hotel, to the Salvation Army, which planned to convert it into a residence for business women and add the building to its chain of Evangeline Residences. According to the New York Times (January 13, 1954), the hotel was renamed Ten Eyck-Troughton Memorial Residence for women, in 1956. In 2006, the Salvation Army announced they were selling the building because it had become too costly to maintain. The building was sold in 2010 to BD Hotels and it became, in June 2012, the Pod 39 Hotel, a micro-hotel model with 367 rooms, as an extension to the 345-room Pod Hotel, at 230 East 51st Street, which opened in 2007.

The Pod 39 is an affordable alternative in New York City, with small rooms, that provides the amenities of more expensive hotels. It has a rooftop bar and restaurant with views of its Midtown surroundings, including Empire State Building.