The Whitby | cooperative, Neoclassical (architecture), apartment building, 1924_construction

 cooperative, Neoclassical (architecture), apartment building, 1924_construction

10-story Neo-Classical cooperative-apartment building completed in 1924. Designed by Emery Roth, it was originally commissioned as a hotel by The Gresham Reality Company. The building was converted into a residential cooperative in 1988 by Premiere Marketing Services.

It is divided by light courts into three main wings, clad in warm tan brick. Dentiled band courses set of the lower two floors as well as the top two. The middle wing has three bays of paired windows, while the end wings have two bays of paired windows flanked by end bays of single-windows. At the ground floor, which has a limestone water table, both light courts are framed by limestone pillars with finials on top, with graceful ogee curves on the inner sides partly enclosing the light court space. The western light court is spanned by a wrought-iron gate, while the eastern one has the main entrance, with a green, rounded canvas canopy extending over the sidewalk.

2-story limestone surrounds group the paired windows at the lower two floors, with the stone spandrels between the floors graced by roundels. The windows are all framed in green metal. At the top two floors, the paired windows are grouped by 2-story round-arches, with the top floor's windows themselves also round-arched. Decorative spandrels separated these two floors, and the facade is crowned by a modillioned roof cornice.

The side walls of the light courts have tripartite windows flanked by paired windows, while the rear walls of the light courts have narrow single-windows flanked by wider windows. The building contains 215 apartments.