210 West 78th Street (New York City, New York)

 Tudor (architecture), apartment building

10-story Tudor Revival-style cooperative-apartment building completed in 1926. Designed by Louis Allen Abramson, it is clad in ironspot brick with beige stone and brown wood-and-metal trim. The central entrance is in a projecting stone surround, and has wood-and-glass double-doors and a shallow-arched, leaded-glass transom below a rounded, grey canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. There is a segmental-arched window to either side. The west end has three square-headed windows, and to the east there is a black metal service door and two more windows, with the end bay narrower than the others and having a stairs below it descending to to a basement entrance.

The upper floors have very narrow windows at the end bays, and wide triple-windows in the next outer bays. In the middle are four bays of windows that come to points at the top; all the windows are subdivided into numerous small panes by thin metal framing, and have stone sills. From the 3rd-9th floors the middle section has two bays of triple-windows; this area projects out from the rest of the facade, slightly less at the 3rd floor, which has brick cladding, than the floors above which are surrounded by beige stone with a grid of brown colored horizontal and vertical banding. Three pairs of brackets support the projecting section at the base of the 3rd floor, which also has brown banding criss-crossing its brick cladding. At the base of the 4th & 8th floors are horizontal bands of curved lines forming vague quatrefoil shapes below each window section. The narrow side walls of the projecting section are also stone, and have narrow windows at the 4th-9th floors. The outer bays (not including the narrow end bays) have very slightly projecting beige and brown stone surrounds at the 7th-8th floors.

At the ends the roof line is marked by a crenelated parapet with stone coping. In the center the projecting section is topped by a pair of large gables, with a short, peaked roof extending farther forward; behind these rises a brick chimney on the left. Set back from the lower roof line is a penthouse level at the 10th floor, with a flat roof line. There are light wells at both side elevations, both lined with windows.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1980, with 38 apartments.

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