These very similar Beaux-Arts-style residential hotels, built within a year of each other by the same firm, reflect the conservatism of fin-de-siècle Boston. Borrowing heavily from McKim, Mead and White's Algonquin Club (BB51) of 1887, each facade is of limestone with a rusticated base (two stories at the Hotel Tuileries, one at the Hotel Lafayette) below multiple floors of variously pedimented window openings, culminating in a heavy entablature. If each elevation suffers from being centered on a pier, this misfortune is mitigated somewhat at the Tuileries by the relative composure of its flat facade, and the triumphal-arch entrance bay ascending into the second story.