102 West 75th Street

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7-story Renaissance/Romanesque-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1892. Designed by Gilbert A. Schellenger, it was originally called The Del Monte. It is clad in orange-red brick above a 2-story brownstone base; the north elevation ground floor on 75th Street is rough-faced and rusticated, while the ground floor along the avenue is lined with a variety of metal, stone, and glass storefronts. The brownstone on the 2nd floor is banded.

The residential entrance on 75th Street, near the west end, has glass infill with double-doors set inside a large round-arch. Trios of short, squat colonnettes flank the glass infill at the sides of the arch. Another arch is near the east end, this one with an arched window above a stone panel with foliate carvings. At the sidewalk level are three basement windows with iron grilles. The far east end has a short return of the modern storefront at the north end of the east facade. Between the two large arches the ground floor has a niche with two colonnettes at the edges. The far west end has a secondary entrance with a metal door up a short, sideways stoop, and a small, circular window to the left. The west edge is chamfered, with a single-window in the angled facet. A band course caps most of the ground floor, accented by foliate carved panels. Above the ground floor, the northeast corner is also chamfered.

The floors above the ground floor on the north facade have bays of three narrow windows above the two large arches. Between these are two bays of paired windows, and a center bay of single-windows (above the ground-floor niche). The ends both have two single-windows. Engaged colonettes flank the windows above the arches, and these bays project out slightly. The 2nd floor, with banding on the main piers, is capped by a dentiled brownstone cornice. The long east facade has a single-window at the north end bay. To the south there is another single-window bay, a paired-window bay, a bay of three windows (with the middle one narrower), a paired-window bay, a single-window bay, a bay of three narrow windows, and two single-window bays at the south end.

The upper floors have slightly-projecting main piers, topped by intricately carved terra-cotta capitals at the 6th floor, where the windows are round-arched. There are flat brownstone lintels and sills on the other windows, and elaborately carved spandel panels between the floors at the southern 3-window bay. A pair of brown metal fire escapes run down the facade, one near the south end, and one closer to the center. A dentiled, brown metal roof cornice marks the roof line. The upper floors on the north facade have similar design elements, with another fire escape.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1985, with 60 apartments. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Pappardella restaurant, European Wax Center, QQ Nails and Spa, Veriazione boutique, and Housing Works thrift shop.