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6-story Romanesque-revival residential building originally completed as two separate buildings in 1890 and 1891. The southern building, also known as 309 Columbus Avenue, was designed by Richard R. Davis, and opened as The Saybrook, while the northern, also known as 313-315 Columbus Avenue, was designed by Frederick T. Camp, and opened as The Hartford. They are now joined internally, with the residential entrance on 75th Street, and modern storefronts of glass, metal, and stone lining the ground floor along the avenue.

The northern building is clad in orange brick above a 2-story rusticated base of beige stone. Above the ground floor, the north facade has a center bay of paired windows. To either side is another bay of paired windows, with a smaller window inserted to the inside of this bay on each floor, and at the ends are single-window bays. The entrance is below the western of the center bay's windows, with wood-and-glass double-doors recessed in a round-arch atop a short stoop. The heavy arch is flanked by stout columns topped by finials with rounded caps, and there is a checkerboard gable above the arch. Basement areaways on either side of the stoop are behind a low, wrought-iron fence. All of the windows on the two floors of the base have stone surrounds, except for the large display window at the ground floor's east paired-window bay. The white stone storefront from the north end of the west facade wraps around for a short return at the west end of the ground floor. A dentiled band course caps the ground floor, interrupted by the finials and gable of the entrance. At the 2nd-4th floors the outer paired-window bays flare slightly out, with angled facets where the windows are located; these 3-story sections, as well as the edges of the facade, are framed by stone quoins. The small windows next to these bays are oval-shaped, except for the western one at the 2nd floor, which is longer and pointed-arched. Hooded lintels top the end-bay windows at the 2nd floor, and at the 4th floor the end bays and center bay have arched brick lintels with stone imposts. Additionally, there is a stone gable atop the lintel of the west end-bay window on the 4th floor. The top two floors are set off by a string course, and have a similar window arrangement, except instead of small oval windows, they are square-headed at the 5th floor and round-arched at the 6th. Two lines of brick quoins frame the center bay, and also the east edge of the facade. Brick round-arches top the main windows of the 5th floor, as well as the end bays at the 6th floor; these arches have stone imposts at the end bays. At the roof parapet there are elaborate, projecting, terra-cotta compositions at the outer paired-windows bays (including over the small windows). These both consist of a modillioned cornice and decorated frieze framed at both ends by console brackets flanked by slender colonnettes. The east facade, facing a very narrow alley, is clad in plain brick and has bays of single-windows.

The west facade of the north building, along the avenue, has three bays of paired windows - spaced closer together at the center bay. There are stone surrounds with cornices at the 2nd floor, splayed brick lintels at the 3rd floor, and the 4th floor has projecting, arched lintels of brick and stone above the center-bay windows. The outer bays have similar, but wider, arched lintels that appear to encompass the entire bay, but are interrupted in the middle by slightly-projecting brick shafts with incised round-arched niches. The top two floors are again set off by a string course, and have similar ornament to the north facade, with another large terra-cotta composition topped the center of this facade. A brown metal fire escape runs down the center bay, with a landing extending across to the north at the 2nd floor, across the whole facade at the 3rd, across to the south at the 4th, and across the full facade at the top floor.

The south building is shorter at only five floors, and is clad in beige brick above a tall ground floor of white stone and glass with modern storefronts, framed at the ends by rusticated stone piers. It has three bays, with tripartite windows in the outer bays, and paired windows in the center bay, all slightly recessed between the brick piers. The paired windows are separated by a white stone colonnette at each floor, and the tripartite windows have black metal framing. There are white stone lintels that extends to the piers, and white stone sill courses, except below the 5th floor, which has a brown dentiled cornice. There are patterned spandrels of brown terra-cotta between the floors at each bay, and brown metal fire escape landings extending across most of the facade at each floor. The four piers each have a trio of vertical grooves at the tops; the 2nd one from the north is capped by a red-brick chimney. Between the two middle piers, the center bay is topped by a gable with a dogstooth brick pattern. The other two bays are topped by low panels of dogstooth brickwork above brick corbels.

The ground floor is occupied by Paper Source stationery store, OSKA women's clothing store, Corks on Columbus wine & spirits, The Shade Store window treatments, and Benefit Cosmetics. along the avenue, and Jenny's hat shop on 75th Street; the basement level is occupied by L.Ac Xin He Acupuncture, and Poly Cleaners.