L'Elysee Condominiums

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102-foot, 11-story residential building completed in 1903. Designed by Adolph Mertin as a 10-story office building, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base. The ground floor has the main entrance on the right, framed by grey granite Ionic columns supporting a projecting entablature; a rounded navy canvas canopy extends out over the sidewalk. The the left is a modern storefront. The 2nd & 3rd floors have three banded piers with cartouches and other ornament at the top. Both of the two bays have three windows separated by black metal mullions; the floors are divided by stone spandrels. A dentiled cornice caps the base.

The brick 4th floor is coursed; the three windows in each bay are topped by flat, splayed stone lintels. A stone band course with a wave motif and dentils sets off the upper floors, clad in plain brick. The three piers have stone bases at the 5th floor, rising to a cornice with an egg-and-dart molding at the 8th floor. The windows are slightly narrower than on the 4th floor, and have projecting sill courses as well as keystones on their lintels. The 8th-floor windows are grouped under shallow arches, and topped by very large cartouches flanked by carved acanthus leaves, just below the cornice.

The 9th & 10th floors have four bays, each with a single wide, square-headed window topped by a keystone. The three projecting inner piers are decorated with hanging ornament at the 10th floor, with a simple parapet above. The building was converted to residential in 1982, with a new set-back penthouse level on top, clad in brick and fronted by a band of modern windows. The exposed upper western elevation is clad in brown brick, with a single window toward the front of both the 9th & 10th floor. The ground floor is occupied by Flatiron Pediatrics.