The Ancott

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Two joined 7-story/8-story Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed in 1900. They share almost the same design, with the north building set slightly higher due to the gentle slope of the street. They were originally built as separate buildings, at the same time, but were joined internally, now with a single entrance through the south building.

The facade of the south building is clad in buff-colored brick above a 2-story white-painted limestone base, with the ground floor in grey granite along the avenue and the west section of the south facade, dating from a 2012 renovation. These areas are lined with storefronts with plate-glass windows of various widths, as well as two recessed glass door on the west facade. The main entrance is right of center on 96th Street, with black wrought-iron-and-glass double-doors below a transom, covered by a rounded, green canvas canopy. The entry is flanked by 2-story banded piers with oversized console brackets at the 2nd floor, carrying an extension of the cornice that caps the base; this serves as a landing for the reddish-brown iron fire escape above, which has landings extending over to the next bay to the east as well, and a 2nd-story landing to the west, above a single-window at the ground floor that has a molded surround with narrow, elongated brackets, a keystone, and cornice. The east end of the ground floor has another storefront with a recessed central entrance.

The upper floors have end bays each with two single-windows, that are framed by piers with bands of cream-colored stone at the upper floors. In between are five single-windows, the eastern two of which are paired together at the 2nd floor within the brackets above the entrance. The windows have splayed stone lintels with keystones at the 3rd-6th floors, and sill courses spanning the end bays. The 7th floor is set off by a stone string course and has brick banding on all the piers, each of which has a dark-red terra-cotta capital with a garland. The facade is crowned by a projecting, bracketed, brown metal roof cornice.

The upper floors on the west facade have the same 2-window end bays, and seven single-windows in between, with the center one spaced farther apart. All of the trim matches that on the south facade, and there are two fire escape rising the full height of the building, as well as a shorter one to the south that only reaches to the 4th floor.

The east facade is clad in dark-brown brick, with red brick at the top. It has a bay of single-windows at the front edge, with a few more farther back. The ground floor of the south building is occupied by Trek bicycle store, a Citibank branch, and All Seasons Nails & Spa.

The north building is clad in lighter-colored brick on the upper floors, and the ground floor along the avenue is lined with metal-and-glass storefronts between brick and stone piers, with a single storefront bay extending on to the west end of the north facade. The former entrance on 97th Street matches the one of 96th Street, but has been converted to a plate-glass window (behind an iron fence), and the single-window to the west has been filled-in. There is one beige metal fire escape near the south end of the west facade, and another near the east end of the north facade. The roof cornice is beige and lacks the brackets seen on the south building's cornice. There is a small 8th-floor penthouse at the northeast corner of the roof. Both buildings have central light courts.

The ground floor of the north building along Broadway is occupied by Paris Baguette Cafe, and a Bank of America branch.

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