The Lancaster

 apartment building, housing cooperative, 1885_construction

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5-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1885. Designed by James Renwick, Jr. of the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell,, it is clad in orange-red brick. It is three bays wide, with paired windows in the middle, and joined double-windows at the outer bays. At the ground floor, the entrance is up a short stoop, and under a wide arch. Iron railings on either side surround the areaways in front of the segmental-arched basement windows. The ground floor is topped by a double cornice, with "THE LANCASTER" spelled out between the two. Additional cornices top the 2nd & 4th floors. The center bay is slightly projecting forward and covered by a black metal fire escape. All the windows have splayed lintels of red terra-cotta, except for those on the top floor, which are topped by round-arches. This floor has another cornice and a dentiled roof cornice above that.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1981. It now has ten residential units.