The Stratford Arms

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10-story Renaissance-revival (with Gothic elements) residential hotel completed in 1928. Designed by C. Howard Crane & Associates, it is clad in tan brick above a white limestone and terra-cotta ground floor. There are five main bays on the ground floor, with the main entrance in the middle one. It has a recessed glass wall with glass double-doors. The entry is framed by egg-and-dart and rope moldings, stepped up in the center and extending into the bottom of the 2nd floor. A large stone panel above the doors (which have elaborate brackets at the upper corners) bears the carved words "STRATFORD ARMS", with ribbons around the panel and a leafy crown-like element on top, where the stepped-up section is. To either side are two pointed-arch openings with bead moldings; the inner two have tripartite windows, and the outer two have glass infill (glass and metal at the western one) with secondary entrances. Also on the ground floor are two small windows with iron grilles - at the west end, and between the main entrance and the arched bay to its left. The ground floor is capped by a rounded molding above a dentil course.

The upper floors have three bays of paired windows (with small bathroom windows in between the window pairs) at the center, followed by single-window bays and additional small bathroom windows to the outside. The end bays have single-windows and are framed by engaged octagonal brick colonnettes rising from bases at the top of the 2nd floor; the end bays are clad in stone at the 2nd floor. The center bay has a stone surround around its small bathroom window on the 2nd floor, with a pointed-arch. At the top of the 2nd floor is a row of vertically-laid bricks and a band of X-patterns in the brickwork, surmounted by a stone string course. The upper-floor windows all have simple stone sills, and the facade is dotted with protruding air-conditioning units.

An undulating band course crosses between the 8th & 9th floors, and the facade is crowned by a stone roof cornice with large dentils and cresting. The four projecting colonnettes at the end bays extend up above the roof line to stone caps. The east and west elevations are clad in plain brown brick. Both have deep light courts at the middle that are lined with single-windows. The north-facing rear facade is quite similar to the south facade. At the center of the roof is a large, square mechanical penthouse and water tower. The hotel was recently converted into furnished studio apartments for students of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy (AMDA).