350 Central Park West

 apartment building, 1929_construction, Neo-Renaissance (architecture)

160-foot, 17-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1929. Designed by Jacob M. Felson, it is clad in brown brick above a rusticated limestone ground floor with a grey granite water table. The main entrance is centered on Central Park West, with black wood-and-glass double-doors framed by spiral colonnettes below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. There is a small, scrolled keystone on top, and wrought-iron light fixtures mounted on the wall on either side. The ground floor to either side has a single-window framed by slender colonnettes and topped by a small arch with a shield, followed by three single-windows, another single-window next to a secondary entrance to a commercial space (with a black wood-and-glass door in a thin molding with a small, scrolled keystone), two double-windows, another secondary entrance, and a double-window end bay. The ground floor is capped by a band course with very small dentils.

The upper floors have two middle bays of double-windows, followed by three single-windows, three double-windows, a single-window, and double-window end bays. There are regular brick quoins on the piers around the three outer (non end-bay) double-windows from the 2nd-3rd floors. Those between the three double-window bays end at the stone cornice across the 3rd floor, but the outer two continue up to the roof line. There are also quoins at the edges of the facade that change to spiral colonnettes at the corners at the 4th floor. The double-windows all have black iron mullions, except at the three (non end-bay) double-windows on either side, which are divided by spiral columns instead on the 2nd & 3rd floors. At the 2nd floor these are edged by rounded moldings with zig-zag patterns, extending over the stone round-arches on top. There are very small shields carved in the arches, and other shields centered in the stone spandrel panels above the arches, which have scalloped top edges. At the 3rd floor there are also stone arches over the windows, with small shields, but these have brick edges with stone imposts. The two center bays have 2-story spiral colonnettes framing them, stone spandrels with arch patterns, and scalloped panels above the 3rd-floor windows. Just above the 3rd-floor cornice there are larger stone shields at each pier that has the quoins. There is also a much larger shield at the center of facade between the 4th & 5th floors. There are checkerboard patterns of raised bricks between the upper floors at the center two bays, and the middle bays of the three double-windows toward the ends. The facade is dotted with protruding air-conditioning units. Projecting stone balconies carried on pairs of brackets, with scalloped front walls, are located at the middle bays of the three double-window groups on the 10th & 15th floors, at the center bays on the 11th & 15th floors. A band course runs below the 15th floor. There are stone spandrels between the 15th & 16th floors, with round-arches above the middle bays of the three double-window groups. The 16th-floor roof line is marked by a modillioned stone cornice. The 17th-floor penthouse set back from the lower roof line, and wraps around the two light wells on the west side that organize the building into an E-shape.

The ground floor of the south facade on 94th Street has, from east to west, paired single-windows, a double-window, a tripartite windows, a single-window paired with a secondary entrance, two more double-windows bays, paired single-windows, and there is a 1-story extension at the west end with a gated, segmental-arched opening to the alleyway behind the building, paired with a small window. The upper floors have paired windows in the middle, flanked by two bays of double-windows on either side, and end bays with paired windows. The trim and ornament matches that seen on the east facade.

The ground floor of the north facade on 95th Street has, from east to west, a double-window end bay, four single-windows, a single-window paired with a secondary entrance, a wider single-window, two bays of paired single-windows, and another double-window end bay, with a gate to the alleyway at the west end. The upper floors are the same, but with two double-window bays at the middle.

The three wings of the west facade are clad in beige brick. The north wing has single-windows at the north end, followed by two bays of small windows and another single-window. The middle wing has two double-windows flanking a small single-window at its north half, and the projecting south half has a small window paired with a single-window. The south wing has two double-windows at its north end, followed by two small windows and a single-window end bay. The light wells are also lined with windows.

The building contains 145 apartment units. The ground floor along Central Park West is largely occupied by medical offices.