The building, designed by architect George Mott Pollard, stands at 1 West 67th Street, almost directly next to Central Park, on a tree-lined block in a district listed National Register of Historic Places, where seven pre-war artist loft buildings stand side by side. Ever since its 1916 completion, the Hotel has housed a who-is-who of elite luminaries, such as artists Norman Rockwell and LeRoy Neiman, actors Rudolph Valentino and Sir Noël Peirce Coward, dancer Isadora Duncan, choreographer George Balanchine, Mayor John V. Lindsay, writer Fannie Hurst, and critics Alexander Woollcott and Paul Goldberger, as well as many other well-known public figures.