Thorndale Condominium

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6-story residential building originally completed in 1905 as a carriage house. Designed by Frank A. Rooke for Oakleigh Thorne, the owner of Thorndale Farms in Dutchess County, New York, It has a rusticated, painted limestone base, beige-yellow brick on the 2nd-4th floors, a limestone 5th floor, and a set-back penthouse level that is faced in beige stucco and not visible from the street.

The end bays on the ground floor have metal-and-glass entrance doors in round-arched openings. The two middle bays are square-headed, with large 3-over-3 windows that have protruding, translucent glass cover with slanted top over the lower row of panes. Four elongated keystones support a band course capping the ground floor.

The 2nd-4th floors have four square-headed windows in the middle, and narrower segmental-arched windows in the end bays, with brick lintels and limestone keystones. All the windows have stone sills, and there are recessed geometric panels in the spandrels in the middle bays. At the 4th floor, the middle bays are also segmental-arched, with keystones and impost blocks. A stone band course with brick corbels sets off the 5th floor, which has four recessed windows in the middle, and recessed circular oriel windows in bull's-eyes at the end bays.

In 2006 the building was converted to condominiums by Lynn Gaffney Architect, PLLC, with 21 condominium units.