The Altman Building

 place with historical importance, apartments

5-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1896. Designed by Kimball & Thompson as a stable for the B. Altman Company's store next door, its ground floor has four large arched bays, and two different end bays. The center bays were carriage entrances. The ground floor is faced in pink granite with a grey granite water table, and the arched bays have console keystones and roundels in the spandrels. There is an arched doorway in the western end bay under a pedimented door hood, which is flanked by arched windows. The eastern bay held a similar arched doorway prior to the alteration which changed the configuration of the doorways.

Over the ground floor is a belt course. The 2nd, 3rd & 4th floors are faced in light-brown painted limestone. The four center bays each hold a tripartite grouping of windows; the end bays have a tripartite grouping of a tall center window flanked by two smaller ones. Each bay of windows on the 3rd and 4th floors shares a common sill. A belt course separates the 4th & 5th floors. The 5th floor has tripartite window groupings in each bay, but the mullions are treated as pilasters. The end bays have Palladian window units. A cornice appears to have been removed from over the four center bays; above is a modern metal railing. Stone pavilions of Tuscan inspiration rise an additional story over the end bays. The three windows of each pavilion are deeply recessed behind two columns and two corner piers. The pavilions have modillioned cornices and are surmounted by balustered parapets. The eastern pavilion has had a penthouse structure appended to it.

The building was converted to apartments in 1940.

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