111 West 16th Street (New York City, New York)

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6-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1925. Designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag, it is clad in buff-colored brick. Each of the four elevations has a central light court, with a deeper one at the front, facing 16th Street. The entrance is at the rear of this light court, framed in stone and topped by a cornice with large modillions. Above the entrance, each floor has two narrow windows in the center, flanked by a wider window on each side. The side walls of the light court have four bays of windows, one of which is smaller. The two wings created by the light court each span five bays of single-windows. There is a stone band course at the bottoms of the 1st-floor windows, and brick round-arched above the 2nd- and 6th-floor windows. Both of the wings have a white metal fire escape, and are crowned by interesting roof cornices with a paneled frieze with diamond shapes, stylized modillions of alternating types, and small lion's heads above each modillion. The building contains 82 apartments.