The hotel offers more than 5,800 square feet of banquet and reception space, designed by Mark Hampton.
A business center with high speed Internet access onsite. Currency exchange and translation and secretarial services are offered. The hotel's fitness area features modern cardiovascular equipment, licensed personal trainers and nutritionists, and masseuses performing massage therapies at the onsite health club and spa. Dog walking and child care are also provided.
This hotel, named after British essayist Thomas Carlyle, was completed in 1930, during America's Great Depression. The venue was famed for "bundling parties" in the 1940s, where society ladies would bring bundles of used clothes for those in need.