25 West 68th Street (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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10-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1925. Designed by George F. Pelham, it is clad in buff-colored brick with a low, grey granite water table. The central, main entrance is framed in limestone, above which there is a deep light well. There are also light wells at the center of the north, east, and west facades, dividing the building up into four wings. The main entrance has a large round-arch with metal-and-glass double-doors and a rounded, blue canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To either side of the canopy is a high-set, small, round-arched window with an ornate wrought-iron grille. Above these windows and the central arch are carved garlands flanking small shields; the center one is set higher up in the limestone, and bears the number 25. A molding that is stepped up in the center tops the limestone entry. To either side of the entrance, the ground floor has a double-window, a single-window paired with a narrow glass-and-metal door, two more single-windows, and a double-window in the end bay. All of these windows have the same style of wrought-iron grilles as those covering the arched windows at the entrance. The western narrow door opens into a dentist office, and the eastern one is a service door. At the far western end there is a low-set basement entrance down a few steps from the sidewalk. There are also three wide, low basement windows with iron grilles at the outer bays on each side.

The upper floors follow the same window placement, except with the single-windows that are next to the doors on the ground floor shifted over; the double-windows are divided by black iron mullions. A beige terra-cotta band course with decorative upper and lower moldings caps the 2nd floor at both of the south facade's wings, continuing a short way onto the interior walls of the central light well. Between the 7th & 8th floors there are parallel string courses (with dentils on the lower one) that frame shallow projecting stone balconies at the middle three bays of each wing. The balconies are carried on carved console brackets, single at the ends and paired in the middle, and the front sides of the balconies have carved ornament. The middle three bays at the top two floors are framed by brick pilasters with small capitals at the top of the 9th floor, from which spring simple brick arches enclosing small stone cartouches. Stone coping caps the roof lines, stepped up at the center of both wings.

The inward-facing walls of the south light well have a double-window bay at the rear, and two bay of small bathroom windows in the middle. The rear, south-facing wall of this light well has two bays of single-windows. There are no windows on the east and west elevations, except for within the light wells. On either side of the north light well, the north-facing facade has three bays of double-windows, a bay of small bathroom windows, and another bay of double-windows. A penthouse level on the 10th floor is set back on all sides and not visible from the street.

A tall water tower rises from the northwest roof portion. The building contains 75 apartment units.