Regent House (New York City, New York)

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15-story Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1939. Designed by William M. Dowling for Nathaniel Wallenstein, it is clad in beige brick. It front facade is seven bays wide, with the middle bay much smaller and the end bays set back. The central entrance spans three bays at the ground floor, framed in black marble. It has glass-and-bronze double-doors under a peaked navy-blue canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To either side is a bronze-framed window, followed by a smaller window, with the opening filled in behind the glass. Flanking the entry on the ground floor are similar but wider window groups.

The upper floors have small windows in the center bay, flanked by wider bays of windows with black metal framing. Protruding air-conditioning units dot the facade, while some of the bays have vents cut below them. At the bays next to the recessed end bays, the end panes of the windows are angled back. There is a shallow projecting balcony at the center of the 11th floor, where the middle section sets back, with chamfered corners at the 11th & 12th floors. The end bays set back above the 10th floor, and the two sections at the center, created by the recessed gap in the middle, set back above the 12th floor. The 13th floor marks the lower roof line, with a smaller 2-level penthouse at the center. There is a narrow exposed section of the front of the east elevation that has a bay of very narrow windows.

The building contains 73 apartments.