The Turin Cooperative

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134-foot, 12-story Neo-Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1910. Designed by Albert J. Bodker, it is clad in light-grey brick with beige terra-cotta trim above a 2-story rusticated limestone base and partially exposed grey granite basement. The building is separated by four light courts into five main wings; two of the light courts are on 93rd Street, another is at the center of the Central Park West facade, and the fourth is on the north side, facing the interior of the block.

The main entrance is at the back of the east light court on Central Park West. It has wood-and-glass double-doors atop a couple of stone steps, with more steps inside leading up to the lobby. The doorway is covered by a half-dome, glass-and-iron canopy. To either side is a small single-window. The 2nd floor has narrow paired windows in the center, flanked by a single-window on either side that has a metal sidelight panel along its inner edge. At the upper floors the center bay has either tripartite windows with grey iron mullions or square double-windows with very the framing, depending on the floor. The side walls of this light court have a narrow single-window at the back, next to a double-window. There is a single-window bay at the front, and a bay of small bathroom windows in between. The two wings on the east facade match, both with four bays of double-windows (some replaced by large, square plate-glass panes) at the upper floors, large round-arched single-windows with decorative wrought-iron grilles and scrolled keystones at the 1st floor, and short, square paired windows at the basement level, which is higher here, with the granite at its top angling back toward the rest of the facade.

The 2nd-floor windows have stone mullions instead of iron, and have very short, gently-curved balconies with low, wrought-iron railings, carried on the keystones below. The base is capped by a stone band course with dentils and a lower frieze of rosettes alternating with crest-like floral shapes. Rough-faced, brown stone spandrels outlined in brick are located in each bay between the upper floors; each has a pair of diamond shapes, some filled by male and female heads facing each other, and others floral forms. The windows at the 9th floor have twin round-arches in each bay, grouped together under larger arches with medallions. A narrow string course sets off the 10th floor, which is topped by a dentiled cornice, and has recessed brick panels on the piers. There are spandrels like those below between the 11th & 12th floors, and more round-arches above the 12th-floor windows, where thin cornices cap the piers. Medallions with heraldic shields adorn the spaces above each pier just below the roof line, which has a thin metal coping.

The south facade along 93rd Street has a lower basement level, almost completely below grade, especially at the west end; it therefore has no openings along this facade, but both light courts are lowered, with steps leading down into them, and here the basement levels are exposed, with windows largely corresponding to those above. The east light court has another entrance, up a second set of steps at the far end; it is round-arched with wood-and-glass double-doors and a fanlight, set in a stone surround with a scrolled keystone. The upper floors have double-windows flanked by a single-window on each side. The side walls have two single-windows flanking a bay of smaller bathroom windows, and double-windows at the front. The west light court is similar, but without an entrance, and with only one single-window bay on the east-facing side wall.

The three wings created by these two light courts match, each with three bays of windows - round-arched single-windows on the ground floor, and double-windows above. All of the trim and ornament matches that established on the east facade, including within the light courts.

The building contains 69 apartments.

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