45 West 11th Street | apartment building

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8-story Italian Renaissance residential building completed in 1904. Designed by Buchman & Fox as a tenement, it has a rusticated stone first floor, with a facade of red brick and white stone above. Stone quoins line the corners. The main doorway is massive and rich with a broken-arched pediment, having as its crowning central motif a paneled block with swags. The pilasters at the sides display a curvilinear Italian Renaissance motif. The 2nd floor has four bays of large, segmental-arched windows whose keystones are interlocked with an overall system of horizontal stone band courses.

Topping the 3rd floor windows are triangular stone pediments, and the 4th & 5th floors have massively oversized splayed lintels. There is a bracketed iron balcony at 7th floor level. The 7th and 8th floors have brick pilasters crowned by a small metal cornice. On either side of the entrance is a wrought-iron fence around the basement areaways.

In the 1960s and '70s, the building served as a residence hall for the Mills College of Education until closing in 1975 after merging with the New School for Social Research.

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