40 West 22nd Street

 apartment building, 1910_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

150-foot, 12-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1910. Designed by Louis Korn & Maximilian Zipkes as a store-and-loft building, it is faced in stone and buff-colored brick, six bays wide. The 3-story base is framed in a heavy rusticated stone architrave with a keystone supporting a stone parapet with balusters at each end. Above the modern glass and black metal storefront a metal spandrel panel supports single-pane windows at each end with transoms, separated by double-height metal mullions from the Chicago-style windows in the center. The 3rd floor repeats this pattern, except that there are four single-pane windows in the center with three transoms.

The transitional 4th floor contains end bays that project slightly with stone wreaths flanking the window openings. A stone cornice caps the 4th floor. The midsection is clad in buff-colored brick, with each window containing a stone sill and topped with a stone lintel and keystone. A large green copper roof cornice with modillions flanking the end bays caps the facade. The building was converted to a residential cooperative in 1980. The ground floor is occupied by the Preschool of the Arts.