The Griffon Condominium

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15-story residential building completed in 1924. Designed by Margon & Glaser, it is clad in reddish-brown brick above a 2-story limestone base with a granite water table than begins very low along Park Avenue and grows quite tall as the site slopes down along 39th Street.

Despite the Park Avenue address, the main entrance is centered on the north facade on 39th Street. It has glass-and-metal double-doors below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk, flanked by fluted Corinthian columns and topped by an entablature with a small shield, surmounted by a triangular pediment broken by an urn, all set within a recessed round-arch with a scrolled keystone at the top of the 2nd floor. To either side are five window bays, alternating narrow double-windows with paired windows (the center bay at the upper floors maintains the pattern, with paired windows. At the east end where the water table is almost a full floor high, there is a service door, and another matching opening that is filled in with stone, both topped by small shields. Finally, at the far east end there is an additional, recessed single-window bay, filled-in at the first floor.

The 3rd floor is lined on top and bottom by limestone bands, and each window and pier is framed by limestone surrounds. The center and outer double-window bays have shallow stone balconettes with balustrades, each carried on a pair of scrolled brackets, and the tops of these bays are ornamented by small, circular flower patterns. Stone band courses also frame the 11th floor, with outlined panels in the brick piers between the bays. The double-window bays at the top floor have hooded lintels, and the facade is crowned by a projecting stone roof cornice with dentils and brackets. The east end bay sets back above the 9th floor, and there is a penthouse level set back behind the roof cornice.

The west facade on the avenue follows the same design, but only five bays wide. At the ground floor the two paired window bays are replaced by two wooden doors paired with windows. The east elevation is clad in yellow brick, except for at the front edge and above the setback of the end bay. The roof cornice continues around onto this front section. Near the front is a paired window bay, but the front one has been filled-in at each floor. Farther back is a tripartite window, and another single-window, and then a recessed southern section with paired windows flanking two tripartite window bays.

The buidling was converted from an apartment building to condominiums to 1973, with 107 units.