The Hermitage

 apartment building, housing cooperative

10-story Tudor/Neo-Gothic cooperative-apartment building completed in 1928. Designed by H. Douglas Ives and the Fred F. French Company, it is clad in reddish-brown brick above a 4-story limestone-and-terra-cotta base (three floors at the ends). The original casement windows were replaced in 1985 by double-hung single-windows on the front facade, but the rear facade overlooking the park behind retains some of them.

The center section of the north facade is framed by angled, projecting stone piers, and the edges of the facade are marked by flat quoins of matching materials. The central entrance has wood-and-glass double-doors in a Tudor arch below a drip molding and floral band. A rounded, green canvas canopy extends out over the sidewalk. To the left are two bays of triple arched windows with drip moldings, and a service door with a drip molding and small canopy. To the right is another triple-window and an arched double-window joined with a service door. Landscaping enclosed by low brick walls fronts the building, and a string course caps the ground floor.

The 2nd-4th floors have a single-window center bay with a square-headed triple-window on either side, with arcaded spandrels in between floors. A floral band caps the base at the top of the 4th floor. The outer bays are asymmetrical, with the west bay having a wide single-window, and the east side having a small bathroom window next to a double-window at the 2nd-3rd floors.

The upper floors have wide single-windows in the end bays (with the small bathroom windows continuing on the east side), and the middle bays continuing the single-window flanked by triple-windows pattern. A stone band course sets off the 9th & 10th floors, which have terra-cotta cladding at the middle section (including the arcaded spandrels), and at the end bays. The building is highlighted by a quatrefoil parapet running along the roof line, obelisks at the corners, and two lions with shields, and the facade is crowned by a square pavilion with animal finials.

The building contains 62 apartments.