American Press Association Building

 office building, Neoclassical (architecture), 1911_construction

150-foot, 12-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1911. Designed by Mulliken & Moeller, it was originally called the American Press Association Building. The facade is four bays wide, clad in buff-colored brick above a 2-story limestone base. Wide piers frame the end bays at the base, with a service entrance and small storefront in the west bay, and another storefront in the east bay. The middle has a modernized glassy entrance with a white metal band above that reads "225 WEST 39TH STREET". The 2nd floor has triple-windows in the end bays, and a wide band of seven windows in the middle, in black metal frames. Below the end-bay windows, black cast-iron spandrels with projecting panels and cartouches in the centers. The base is capped by a stone band course above a frieze with the lettering "AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION".

The upper floors have triple-windows in each bay, divided by black iron mullions. The bays are separated by uninterrupted brick piers with beveled edges. The windows have simple stone sills and paneled brick spandrels. The piers rise to an ornamental top floor faced in cast-stone, including ornamental cast-stone panels across the top - with a brick-faced triangular pediment at either end - supported on cast-stone piers. There is simple cast-stone coping at the roof line. The ground floor is occupied by Gracia Fashion.

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