The Madison Parq (New York City, New York)

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170-foot, 12-story Beaux-Arts cooperative-apartment building completed in 1918. Designed by Robert E. Moss as a hotel, it has wings fronting on both Madison Avenue and East 27th Street - with differing facades.

The 26th Street frontage has a 2-story rusticated limestone base, with the upper floors clad in light red brick. The ground floor is capped by a dentiled cornice, and the 2nd floor has a cornice with an egg-and-dart molding. The ground floor has five round-arched, with a doorway in the center up a short set of granite steps, now a service entrance with a roll-down metal gate. The other openings have been filled in, and have protruding air-conditioning units near the tops. Each pier has an egg-and-dart molding at its capital. The 2nd floor has three main openings, with splayed lintels, and stone balustrades at the bases of the two outer bays. In between these main openings are two much smaller windows. At the center, two large, scrolled brackets support a stone balcony. The edges of the 2nd floor have stone quoins, which continue onto the brick-clad upper floors.

The 3rd floor has an ornate wrought-iron railing at the central balcony, framed between stone pillars. The window behind it is surrounded by extensive stone quoining, with a gold medallion on either side, and a triangular pediment above. This is flanked by two small, narrow windows, and large end-bay windows with full stone surrounds and wrought-iron railings at their bases.

There is a stone string course above the 3rd floor, and additional string courses dividing the facade into alternating 1- and 2-story sections. All the main windows (not the smaller intermediate windows) have full stone surrounds. The 2-story sections have projecting stone cornices above the center windows, while the 1-story sections have quoins and pediments similar to those on the 3rd floor, as well as the same brackets, pillars, and medallions, but without the balcony and railing in between. The top floor has three round-arched windows with stone surrounds, and two round oculus windows set within stone round-arches.

The Madison frontage also has a 2-story limestone base, with a plainer brown brick cladding and very little ornamentation. It spans seven bays, with double-windows divided by green metal mullions in each bay, except for the middle one, which has paired windows. There is a dentiled cornice above the 2nd floor, and very small dentils surround each window on the upper floors. Another dentiled cornice sets off the top two floor, and the facade is capped by a simple stone cornice.

The ground floor is occupied by Shorty's restaurant, Sweetcatch Poke restaurant, and Bradelis lingerie.