IN THIS VERY MODERN SKYSCRAPER IS INSTALLED A RESIDENCE "EXCLUSIVELY RESERVED FOR MEN

We should not call this admirable skyscraper a hotel. This term evokes something impersonal, temporary, which the Shelton has tried to avoid. This "residence" therefore, which opened last year in New York, surpasses in comfort and grandeur all the most modern university or sports clubs.
Built on the plans of the architect Arthur Loomis Harmon, who himself presided over the interior decoration and the composition of the furniture. The Shelton has this particularity of being exclusively dedicated to the masculine element. Of course, ladies are admitted to the dining rooms and lounges on the ground floor, a rest room has even been provided for them, with care. But, beyond that, it is the inviolable domain of men.
The building itself is the happiest example of this new and very special architecture of skyscrapers with cyclopean dimensions. Its thirty-two floors are obviously well below the fifty-four of the Woolworth Building, but its proportions are more harmonious, and its color, an admirable tone of ochre, gives its imposing mass a real splendor.
In the basement there is a vast swimming pool for swimming enthusiasts, a Turkish bath with steam room and massage room, and bowling alleys. It is also in these depths that hairdressers and pedicurists reside.
And the kitchens? The kitchens are, by refinement, on the ground floor. at the level of the vast dining room and the grill room. There are also other dining rooms on the first floor, without prejudice to the restaurants placed on the roof terraces. What could one imagine to increase the possibilities of relaxation for overworked businessmen who want to reconcile the comfort of home with the independence of the bachelor of which the Shelton is deprived? It offers its guests not only reading rooms, but a very well-stocked library where one can choose, according to one's taste, modern novels or classical literature. There are games rooms, bridge rooms, a billiard room. For physical culture, in addition to the hydrotherapy facilities in the basement, a large gymnasium and covered courts have been reserved, at the top of the building this time. Is it necessary to add that the bathrooms are innumerable and that the relatively modest rooms which do not have a private bathroom nevertheless have their own toilet with hot and cold water? If, in spite of so much care, a client falls ill, he will not have the trouble of being taken to a clinic: an infirmary which comprises an entire wing of the thirty-first floor is installed in such a way as to provide him with all possible care. It should be noted that the most luxurious and sought-after apartments are on the upper floors, above the dust and noise of the street. On the sixteenth floor, where the corner buildings stop, some privileged people have a private garden terrace. There is another very large one, to which all have access, on the roof of the south wing. It is reached by the "solarium" much appreciated by people who spend most of their time in the gloomy shadow of the offices.
Most of the happy cenobites who have retired to this lay charterhouse reside there permanently and are tenants by the year. However, for passing visitors, rooms are rented by the week, and the prices are lower than one might expect: from seventeen dollars a week, one can live in the most modest of the twelve hundred rooms of the Shelton. It is true that the use of all the refined conveniences it offers its guests is paid separately.