Church House of First Presbyterian (New York City, New York)

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5-story church building completed in 1958. Designed by Edgar Tafel, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, to house church activities of the First Presbyterian congregation. It has dark brown Roman brick walls carried up as piers between the windows and further enhanced by dark green terra-cotta mullion strips which lend a vertical accent. Horizontal terra-cotta balconies at second and third floor levels display a continuous, traditional Gothic quatrefoil pattern. The parapet is of similar design and materials. It spans six bays on the main West 12th Street elevation, and five bays on the eastern side.

Although the large windows are of plate glass, the detail of the terra-cotta, the brickwork, and the balconies tend to keep in scale with the adjoining residential buildings.