The Colonial Studios | apartment building, 1906_construction, housing cooperative, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

 apartment building, 1906_construction, housing cooperative, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

138-foot, 14-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1906. Designed by Pollard & Steinam, it was originally called The Colonial Studios. The facade is clad in dark-red brick and limestone above a 2-story base of rusticated limestone. There is a 2-story entrance surround with a large pediment at the top. Above the glass-and-wood double-doors is a stone panel with carved numbers 39 & 41 on either side of a carved C & S within an oblong oval. The pilasters flanking the doorway have copper light fixture holding globe lights, and the capitals at the 2nd floor have egg-and-dart moldings. The middle of the 2nd floor has a double-window, and there are narrow single-windows at both lower floors at the ends of the projecting entrance surround. In front of these windows and extending to the sides are low, blocky limestone walls enclosing basement areaways, with small iron gates at the ends. The end bays at the ground floor have double-windows; all the ground-floor windows have iron grilles.

At the 2nd-3rd floors the end bays have ornate, projecting copper oriels with with windows and globula tulip-bloom framing along the sides. The bases of these are paneled, with garlands, and there are paneled spandrels in between the two floors at these oriels, with egg-and-dart moldings. The center of the 3rd floor has two wide single-windows framed by stone pilasters, and a stone panel in the middle that is framed by ornate carved pilasters, rising from behind the entry surround's pediment. The projecting stone cornice caps the 3rd floor, carried on scrolled brackets.

The oriels continue above the cornice in limestone that protrudes considerably out from the building’s facade. The globular framing along the sides of the oriels are replaced by paneled pilasters, with roundels at each floor. The paneled stone spandrels are like the copper ones at the base. The two inner bays of windows also project out from the brick and have matching framing, and are separated by more stone panels like those at the 3rd floor, lined with elaborate rounded pilasters. There is a very narrow windows at the sides of all the projecting bays. The protruding window bays create two deep vertical incisions that soar upwards until interrupted by a broad center balcony at the 12th floor and then continue upwards. The balcony has wrought-iron railings and two large brackets near the ends, at the non-projecting brick piers, there are also large modillions across the middle of its underside. The facade is crowned by a prominent copper roof cornice with eight large console brackets.

The building contains 28 apartments.