335 & 341 West 38th Street

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A pair of matching 12-story office buildings completed in 1925. Designed by Parker & Schaffer, they are mirror images of one another, and there was originally also a third matching building behind these, on 39th Street. that was a 180-degree rotated version of No. 335; it was demolished in 2016 to make way for a new hotel building. Each building is three bays wide, clad in brown brick above a limestone ground floor. Each ground floor has an entrance bay and 2-bay-wide storefront, with a modillioned band course running across the top. The entrance bay at No. 341 has been refaced in banded, polished red granite.

At the upper floors, the middle bays have four windows, while the end bays have three windows. Each bay has a simple stone sill, and the brick spandrels in between floors each have three simple, square panels. Each facade sets back above the 7th floor, where the bays are capped by cast-stone blind arches and the piers are topped by cast-stone capitals. A matching setback tops the 9th floors, while the 11th has a setback marked by a corbel course at the two western bays of No. 335, and the two eastern bays of No. 341 West 38th. The remaining bay on each facade has a tall, brick penthouse tower rising above the main roof line. The front-facing facade of each penthouse has three, tall, recessed brick panels, and all the faces of the penthouses are capped by crenelated parapets. There is a glass sunroom added to the front of the 12th floor at No. 341 West 38th.

The side walls of each building are clad in brown brick, with various windows bays. Some have triple- and quadruple-window bands, other have paired windows or small single-windows.