Architect: Emery Roth Date: 1925-26

A modest 1890 row house once occupied this narrow site. In its place stands this slender, fourteen-story-plus-penthouse apartment building, rising from a three-story rusticated limestone base. Designed in neo-Renaissance style, there is a flurry of steel-level internet: at the entry, stone pilasters support a broken pediment, which embraces a second-story window with carved reveals. Large limestone blocks line the building's corners. Step back to view the fourth-story central window, fronted with a pseudo balcony and embellished with carved classical motifs. The best vantage point, however, is from the park side of Fifth Avenue. Stone pilasters applied to the brick facade soar from the fourth to the eleventh story, above which Roth pulls out all the architecture stops. At the twelfth story the three center bays are arched with carved surrounds; fourteenth-story windows alternate with decorative panels. Above the modillioned, balustrade cornice rises the penthouse tower, with three double-height arches, a carved cornice, and a huge central cartouche.