10 Park Avenue (New York City, New York)

 high-rise, Art Deco (architecture), apartment building, 1931_construction, housing cooperative

295-foot, 28-story Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1931. Designed by Helmle, Corbett and Harrison as a hotel, it was purchased by the Community Church of New York City, which was located nearby, in 1943. They sold the building in 1973 and the next year it was converted to a co-op, with 268 apartments.

The east facade on Park Avenue is ten bays wide. All of the windows are multi-paned industrial style. Above the central entrance, the middle two bays have wide windows, and the bay to either side has a pair of narrow windows. To each side are another two bays of wide windows, and the north end has an extra section with one very narrow windows and three regular-sized windows per floor. The south facade on 34th Street spans five bays, each with a large window, and the center bay also being flanked by very narrow windows on each side.

Both main facades are clad in tan brick above a 2-story limestone base. At the east elevation, and the end bays of the south elevation, the limestone extends up to the piers of the 3rd floor, where they transition by simple Art-Deco shapes to the brick piers of the upper floors. The two piers between the pairs of narrow windows flanked the center extend higher, partway up the 4th floor. At the north end, the limestone cladding reaches the 6th floor at the narrow bay, and the 5th floor at the northern end. Here, at the 3rd-5th floors, the three bays of windows are cut into narrow halves by thin stone pilasters (with wider stone pilasters separating the bays), and there are elaborately carved spandrels consisting of almost delicate-looking vertical stone panels suspended over stone backing by pairs of horizontal rods. Below these is a 2-story original entrance, now serving as a storefront entrance. It is recessed under a pointed-arch. To its left, the stone-clad part of the narrow bay has narrow, vertically-oriented stone spandrels only the width of the narrow windows between each floor; they are each ornamented with four sunbursts. The two main entrance bays are framed in dark-green marble extending up to a 2nd-story pilaster. The northern opening has a brass revolving door and a green canvas canopy, while the southern one has a pair of glass and metal doors. A projecting flagpole is mounted to the right of the main entrance at the 3rd floor. The ground floor on the south facade has storefront, with a service door at the west end.

At the east elevation, the main end bays begin a series of setbacks above the 21st floor, with the center bays setting back above the 24th. The northern section above the arched entry begins setbacks above the 15th floor. The south facade has similar setbacks. The west facade is also clad in tan brick, with a shallow light court in the center. The rear wall of the light court has two narrow windows in the center, flanked by wider windows. The wing south of the light court has two bays of wider windows around a center bay of narrow windows, and the north wing is the same with an extra bay of wide windows nearest the light court. The rear and side walls of the light court has various small setbacks at the upper floors.The north and south ends of the building end at the 25th floor, with the narrower remaining central section extending a couple more floors, and ending in a brick-clad mechanical penthouse. The ground floor is occupied by 1936 Wine & Spirits, Dunkin'/Baskin Robbins, and Franchia Vegan Cafe.