Hotel Majestic, Former hotel building in Monserrat, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Hotel Majestic is a pale masonry building on the corner of Avenida de Mayo and Santiago del Estero, with a corner tower rising above the roofline. The tower carries a clock face and the sign "MAJESTIC HOTEL"; the same sign appears on a lower facade band and a balcony railing. Rows of rectangular windows with dark balconies and columns run between them, and a balustrade lines the lower section.

La Mutua cooperative bought the Santiago del Estero lots in 1904-1905 and held a design competition won under the motto Mercurio by F. L. Collivadino and I. Benedetti; the enlarged building was completed in 1909. Leased as a luxury hotel for the May Revolution centennial, it closed around 1930 and was bought by the national government in 1931 for the income tax directorate, later the DGI and AFIP. Vacant since 2007, it was assigned to the National Parks Administration in 2020, a transfer revoked in 2024 in favour of the customs and tax collection agency.

The building's name comes from the luxury hotel that opened here in 1909 for the centennial of the May Revolution, when foreign delegations lodged in it. The dancer Vaslav Nijinsky married here, Le Corbusier stayed in 1929, and the Portuguese writer Abel Botelho lived and died in the hotel in 1917. The residential entrance at Avenida de Mayo 1317 still leads to a vestibule with two cage elevators and an imperial staircase with bronze statues.

The building stands at Avenida de Mayo 1317, on the corner of Santiago del Estero, opposite the Hotel Chile. It has been vacant since 2007 and its facade is partly covered by scaffolding, so it is seen from the pavement; the residential entrance on Avenida de Mayo leads to a vestibule with two cage elevators and an imperial staircase.

The tower held a duplex apartment whose mansard roof was crowned by La Mutua's emblem, a radiant sun. Four clocks marked its façades, and a continuous balcony ran along the second level. The 1931 office conversion removed the clocks, the lantern and the sun, and replaced the slate dome with concrete.