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12-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1910. Designed by Maynicke & Franke as a commercial loft building, it is L-shaped, wrapping around the corner building. The 5th Avenue frontage is five bays wide, and that on 13th Street has three bays. The 5th Avenue facade has a 3-story limestone base, with modernized metal-and-glass storefront at the ground floor to the south of a stone-framed doorway that is topped by a shield bearing the number 74, with flowing garlands around it. The 2nd & 3rd floors have large square windows in the middle bays, and narrower end windows. The tops of the piers at the 3rd floor have varied stone decorations, and a dentiled cornice caps the base.

The upper floors are clad in grey brick, with five almost square windows per floor, which have flat stone sills and lintels. The sills at the 9th floor, however, project. This floor is topped by an ornate stone band course with foliate decoration. The two outer bays at the 10th floor have stone enframements, and there are ornamented spandrels on the top three floors. At the top of the 12th floor, the piers have decorated capitals. Four large brackets support a projecting black metal roof cornice. The ground floor is occupied by Uway restaurant and lounge, and Reminiscence vintage store.

The narrower 13th Street facade is clad in grey brick, with central stone diamond shapes in the spandrels, except for between the 3rd-4th floors, which have a large stone cornice, and between the 4th-5th floors, where there is a shorter dentiled cornice spanning only the window bays and not the outer piers. The windows all have stone sills and metal mullions. At the roof line is a decorated frieze and two large gargoyle-like brackets at the ends. The ground floor on 13th Street is occupied by Mapi sandwich bar. The building now contains 36 apartments.