The Buchanan

 apartment building, commercial building

175-foot, 16-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1928. Designed by Lafayette A. Goldstone of the firm of Rouse & Goldstone, the building wraps around an inner courtyard. Each facade is clad in reddish-brown brick. Along the east facade on 3rd Avenue the ground floor is lined with metal-and-glass storefronts separated by grey stone piers, except at the north end where the ground-floor piers are white marble. The piers framing the south bay are banded, and extend to the 2nd floor. The 2nd floor at the north bay also has banded grey piers. A grey stone cornice caps the 2nd floor. Most of the bays on the upper floors have paired or double-windows, with a few single-windows. The banding framing the end bays continues on the upper floors, but in brick. There are two additional banded brick piers near the center. There is a string course between the 14th & 15th floors. A brick corbel course marks the setback above the 15th floor to the recessed penthouse level.

At the north facade on 48th Street there is a central entrance in a double-height round-arch with a scrolled keystone. The glass doors are recessed and set between and behind black wrought-iron framing inside the arch. A semi-circular glass pane fills the top of the arch, which is flanked by two wall lanterns. The arch is set in grey-painted stone; the bays on either side are also grey-painted stone, framed by slightly-projecting pillars, with single-windows at the 1st & 2nd floors. Carved panels with swags separate the two floors within the bays. The rest of the ground floor is also faced in grey-painted stone, except for the east end, which is white marble with two display-windows. Between the marble section and the entrance is a metal service door next to a narrow single-window, a double-window, and another metal door. To the west is a wide display-window, a grey metal service door, a single-window, an entrance to a ground-floor restaurant (covered by a peaked blue canvas canopy), and a wide show-window at the end bay. Both the end bay and the restaurant entrance bay are framed by banded piers at the ground floor, and the banded piers extend up to the 2nd floor at the end bay. Like on the east facade, the 2nd floor is capped by a grey stone cornice.

The south facade on 47th Street has a matching entrance to the north facade, and the rest of the facade is similar, but without the marble section at the east and restaurant storefront at the west (the grey-painted stone extends to both ends, with 2-story banded piers at the end bays). From west to east, the upper floors on north and south facades have single-windows next to smaller bathroom windows (the end bays are flanked by brick banding), double-windows, paired windows, small bathroom windows, two bays of double-windows, a bay of paired windows, another bay of double-windows, another bay of paired windows, another bay of double-windows, and the east end bay of double-windows.

The west facade and walls facing inward toward the courtyard are also clad in brick, with a mix of double- and single-windows. The building contains 278 apartment units. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Fashion Fairy Nail Spa, and The Seafire Grill.