A 4 page menu with uneven page sizes. Shelton Hotel Main Dining Room Menu. Was located on  49th Street and Lexington Ave in  New York City . Dated December 16,  1937. Measures about 7 3/4" x 10 1/2" when closed.  A Landmark Site.

Has information and history of the POwers Hotel in Rochester on the back cover.

Due to the size limitations of my scanner, the entire menu may not show in some of the scans.

Summary Designed by architect Arthur Loomis Harmon and completed in 1923, the Shelton Hotel was one of the first “skyscraper” residential hotels. With its powerful massing it played an important role in the development of the skyscraper in New York City. Located on the east side of Lexington Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets, it is one of the premiere hotels constructed along the noted “hotel alley” stretch of Lexington Avenue, which was built as part of the redevelopment of this section of East Midtown that followed the opening of Grand Central Terminal and the Lexington Avenue subway line. Even while it was under construction the Shelton Hotel was recognized as the first successful embodiment of the massing requirements of the 1916 Zoning Law, notable for its soaring expression of height, powerful simple massing, striking silhouette, and exceptional handling of materials and details. The 31-story-plus-penthouse building is designed in the Lombard Revival style incorporating medieval and Renaissance details. Above a beautifully detailed limestone base, its facades are clad with multi-hued greyish-brown brick and terra cotta. There are three setbacks, stepping up to a central tower, and a picturesque hipped-roofed penthouse. Alternating flush and recessed bays topped with corbelled friezes emphasize the structure’s verticality. Harmon battered the building’s walls, increasing the incline at each setback to counter natural perspectival distortions, relieved the repetition of hotel rooms windows with recessed vertical panels that fostered shadows and contributed to the building’s three-dimensionality, and suppressed horizontal lines to emphasize the structure’s verticality. While the building is nominally Lombard Revival in style, Harmon deliberately avoided relying on any particular period for his details since he believed that “the masses of such modern buildings have no architectural precedence.” 2 At the time it was built, the Shelton was considered the tallest hotel in the world at 31 stories. Articles lauding its design appeared in all of the major architectural journals and the popular press and it received awards from the Architectural League of New York and the American Institute of Architects. The Shelton inspired the design of numerous hotels and apartment houses in New York and throughout the country and it was an important precedent for future setback skyscrapers its monumental scale and simplified silhouettes helping to popularize, what skyscraper historian Carol Willis describes as “the aesthetic of simple, sculptural mass that became the benchmark of progressive design by the mid-twenties.” Originally built as a men’s residence with 1,200 bedrooms plus library, lounge, and athletic facilities, the building opened its doors to women in 1924. A symbol of modern New York, it became a popular residence for theater people, including actor Humphrey Bogart, Group Theatre founder Harold Clurman, playwright Tennessee Williams and artists, most notably Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz who lived at Shelton from 1925 to 1936 and created important and influential work there. It is currently the New York Marriott East Side. The Shelton Hotel is remarkably intact; it retains its iconic form and most of its original Lombard Revival ornament.