Shelton Towers Hotel (now Marriott East Side Hotel)

Abstract

WITH THE Shelton Towers Hotel, the first tall building specifically designed to conform to the setback code, the skyscraper comes into its own as a symbol of modernism. The role of the Shelton’s two most famous occupants—the painter Georgia O’Keeffe and her photographer husband Alfred Stieglitz—cannot be discounted in this process. The couple moved into a tiny, two-room apartment on the twenty-eighth floor with views of the East River shortly after their marriage in 1924.