Rector Square

 condominium, 1986_construction

233-foot, 23-story residential building completed in 1986. Designed by Gruzen Samton Steinglass (now Gruzen Samton LLP), it opened as a rental apartment building known as Parc Place Apartments. It was converted to condominiums and renamed Rector Square in 2007. On the south and west facades, the two lower floors (and small portions of the 3rd 4th) are clad in limestone, with the rest of the building clad in two-tone red and dark-red brick. There are major setbacks at the 13th floor on the northwest and east sides of the tower, with a low-rise wing extending through the block up to Albany Street.

The tower windows are in bays of triples, doubles and singles, with air conditioning vents cut below them. Above the entrance on the south facade, a twin metal-framed bay rises straight up to near the roof line. Projecting stone band courses cut across the outer parts of the facade at the 7th and 13th floors, delineating between the two shades of brick. At the top, a small penthouse level with two brick blocks rises above the roof line on both sides of the tower, and the brick is cutaway for glass and metal at the corners at the tops of some of the bays. The low-rise section on the northeast part of the lot houses a parking garage.