49 West 24th Street

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11-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1915. Designed by Hill & Stout as a store-and-loft building, it has an interesting facade of light and dark grey stone bricks above a 2-story base. The base has outer piers of light grey stone, with raised-outlined panels painted gold (one tall panel at the ground floor and five short ones at the 2nd floor). Capping these two piers at the top of the 2nd floor are ornate gold escutcheons bearing the numbers 49 & 51 (for the building address). Running across the top of the base of three additional raised-outline gold-painted panels (one for each bay), bordered above and below by multi-colored bead courses. The infill at the base is black cast-iron, with patterns of alternating diamond and square shapes ornamenting the intermediate piers. At the 2nd floor, the center bay has three windows, and the outer bays each have two, bordered by a rope-like iron molding. This is also present at the ground floor, around the two end-bay entrances, with transoms. The center bay has a storefront.

The upper floors have paired windows in the end bays, and triple-windows in the center, divided by black iron mullions. At the 10th floor the piers have projecting elements with angled edges. These continue up the top floor as squared pillars with projecting outer edges framing gold-painted centers that narrow toward the top. Between each of these elements, the 11th floor has bays that angle back; the end bays each have four windows, and the center bay has five.

The western elevation is faced in beige parged brick, with a random assortment of windows. A large cylindrical water tower is visible toward the rear of the roof. The ground floor is occupied by Tappo thin crust pizza restaurant.