10 East 44th Street

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8-story office building completed in 1921. Designed by Delano & Aldrich as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in cream-colored painted limestone (white on the 2nd floor) above a modernized ground floor faced in light-grey pre-cast stone. The ground floor has a recessed main entrance with glass doors on the left, and recessed wood-and-glass storefront double-doors at the right. In between is a tripartite show-window projecting out to the building line with angled, narrow side panes. The 2nd floor has a wide tripartite show-window with black metal framing, with beveled side edges.

The upper floors have three windows with brown metal paneled spandrels and narrow pilasters. The window grouping ends under a segmental-arch with keystone at the 8th floor. The top floor is set off by a band course and has three windows and paneled piers. The facade is topped by a modest stone cornice.