175 Columbus Avenue

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5-story Neo-Grec/Queen Anne-style residential building completed in 1887. Designed by Thom & Wilson, it is clad in red-painted brick above a ground floor mostly lined with metal-and-glass storefronts, and a banded limestone section at the center of the west facade. The building originally had the address of 78 West 68th, with its main entrance at the east end of the north facade. This has since been closed up behind a projecting, black metal gate box. The rounded fan pediments with keystone above still remains, now painted grey. The storefront to the right, and continuing on the north end of the west facade, has red brick along its low base, and white-painted metal piers separating the wood-framed show-windows, each topped by a sloped orange awning. The low brick wall extends halfway across the banded stone section in the center, where there is a small square window, and the new entrance to the upper floors through a simple glass door. There is another storefront at the south end.

The upper floors have paired windows in the center bay, and single-window end bays. In between the 2nd floor has double-windows flanked by single-windows, while the other floors have a bay of paired windows and a bay of single-windows (3rd floor) or narrow double-windows (4th & 5th floors) Inward of the end bays are projecting brick pilasters springing from the middle of the 2nd floor, and grower wider at the top two floors. The north facade on 68th Street has four bays of single-windows, with the western two at the 2nd floor replaced by a wide double-window. White-painted band courses and brick corbel courses cross various floors, and the windows have white-painted impost blocks and hooded lintels with small cornices. These are topped by triangular pediments at some bays on the 3rd floor. There are rounded pediments at the ends bays on the west facade.

Both facades are topped by a black metal roof cornice with brackets and swags. The ground floor is occupied by 67 Wine (which also occupies most of the 2nd floor), and Thomas Drugs.