125 West 76th Street

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10-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1922. Designed by George F. Pelham, it is clad in dark-red brick with limestone trim. The front (south) facade has two center bay of double-windows, flanked by a bay of small single-windows, and end bays of double-windows; the double-windows are divided by black metal mullions, have simple stone sills, brick lintels, and are also framed by vertical columns of brick at the sides.

The ground floor has the main entrance in the western middle bay, with paneled glass-and-wood double-doors below a semi-circular green canvas canopy. The entry is framed by white-painted pilasters with a cornice on top, and the 2nd-floor window above is framed is a narrower stone molding also painted white, with a low iron railing across the bottom. At the east end, there is a metal service door next to a narrow single-window. The lower two floors are banded with rows of darker brick, and a white stone band course sets off the upper floors.

There are shallow stone balconies with low iron railings fronting the two middle bays at the 6th floor, and another stone band course sets off the top two floors. The main roof line is marked by a simple stone cornice and brick parapet. Set back on all sides above it is a penthouse level faced in white stucco, surrounded by terrace.

The east elevation is also clad in brick, with no openings at the front section, and the rear two-thirds set back, with (from south-to-north) a bay of double-windows, a bay of single-windows, another bay of double-windows, and two more bays of single-windows, one of which is offset vertically, containing a stairwell. There is also a bay of double-windows at the short, north-facing wall where the facade recesses. The north elevation has three bays of double-windows. The west elevation matches the east.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1986, with 28 apartments.