41 West 25th Street

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137-foot, 11-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1908. Designed by Frederick C. Zobel as a store-and-loft building, it has a 2-story limestone base, with a tall modern glass-and-metal storefront in the center. On the left is a service entrance under an elaborately carved terra-cotta panel, and to the right is the main building entrance, set under a triangular pediment. The rusticated limestone piers sit on granite bases, and frame the single-windows at the end bays. Hanging ornament highlights the tops of the piers, and a broad cornice caps the base. The center of the 2nd floor has two black cast-iron pillars separating the four center window panes from the two outer ones.

The 3rd floor is transitional, and clad in rusticated limestone. It has five windows in the center, with stone enframements, and single-windows in the end bays, also with stone surrounds. Above a rounded cornice, the upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick around the end bays, with black cast-iron infill in the middle section. Each end-bay window has a stone sill and splayed stone lintel. The middle section has fluted pilasters separating the five windows per floor, and spandrels with cartouches in the center, flanked by beveled panels.

Above the 9th floor stylized stone brackets support a large cornice with an egg-and-dart molding and a large cartouche in the center. The 10th floor has stone pilasters between the windows in place of cast-iron, as does the top floor, which has round-arched windows with keystones. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with four enormous console brackets and modillions.

The eastern elevation is clad in tan brick with windows above the 5th floor. The outline of the former adjoining building can still be seen. The ground floor is occupied by Manhattan Center for Kitchen and Bath.