41 Fifth Avenue | apartment building

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150-foot, 15-story residential building completed in 1923. Later reclad by Rosario Candela in the 1930's, its main entrance is on East 8th Street. It has a fifty-four foot frontage on Fifth Avenue with five central windows and two end bays of wider windows (doubled at the 4th floor). The north facade has 11 bays of varying width; the center bay has paired windows, flanked on either side by bays of 1, 3, 1, 2 & 1 windows. The building is clad in a variegated red brick in Flemish bond with attractive dark reddish-brown terra-cotta detail (in the form of round-arches) at the fourth floor windows and at the thirteenth and fourteenth floors. It also has a corbeled terra-cotta cornice. The detail is generally derived from the Early Italian Renaissance. The 1-story base is clad in smooth ashlar stone.