Butterfield House Apartments (New York City, New York)

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147-foot, 13-story (north building) and 7-story (south building) modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1962. Designed by Mayer, Whittlesey & Glass, Butterfield House is linked by a courtyard and walkway between the two building sections. The first floor is deeply recessed, and above it, the facade is clad in grey-brown brick, with stone spandrels between the large, projecting bay windows. Some of the bays instead have recessed balconies with glass railings. The south facade consists of four such projecting bays; the north facade six projecting bays interspersed between bays of more conventional single- and double-windows. An entrance to an underground parking garage is located at the far east end of the 13th Street side.

The building was built over and named for the home of Daniel Butterfield, the Union general who composed Taps. Originally consisting of 102 apartments, including multiple penthouses, apartments have been combined over the years and Butterfield House now has fewer than 100 units.