The Wendhorn

 apartment building, 1958_construction, housing cooperative

139-foot, 15-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1958. Designed by S. J. Kessler & Sons, it is clad in beige brick. The ground floor on the east end is white-painted brick and white-painted stone, and constitutes the basement level at the rest of the building due to the slope of the site. It has two storefronts, and an entrance and exit to the underground parking garage at the north end. The main entrance is at the center of the south facade, recessed in a frame of polished black granite, and with a rounded red canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The west end of the building is recessed behind a long, low brick wall topped with plantings.

At the recessed western area of the south elevation the brick facade has three bays of single-windows at the west end (the middle ones being smaller), with two bays of wide window groups to the right, consisting of wide center panes with regular-sized single-windows flanking them. Air-conditioning vents are cut below each of these wider groups. The eastern part of the south facade has three such wide bays at the left, also with vents below, three bays of single-windows (one smaller), and a final wide bay at the eastern end (with no vents). The western section sets back above the 12th floor, as do the western two bays of the eastern section. The southeast corner sets back at the same level to a chamfered corner at the top floors. The top floor is further recessed.

The east elevation on Park Avenue has three of the wide bays, at the south end, with a narrower triple-window bay and a double-window bay at the north end. All of these bays have air-conditioning vents below the windows.

The building was converted to a cooperative in 1981, with 193 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by a Lucky Cleaners, and Murray Hill Diner.