The Dorset (New York City, New York)

 apartments, Italianate style (architecture)

12-story Italian Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1911. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in brown brick and beige terra-cotta above a 3-story limestone base with a grey granite water table that grows slightly taller on the west end due to the slope of the site. There is a basement entrance set down several steps in the water table at the west end, with low, black iron handrails, and a low opening to the left, with an iron grille.

The symmetrical facade has four single-windows in the center, flanked by a tripartite-window bay and end bays with paired windows. The central entrance, atop a granite step, has a wood-framed glass door with wood-framed sidelights, below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The doorway is flanked by leaded-glass-and-wrought-iron windows framed by surrounds with a feather-like pattern, that also extends across the doorway. Similar carved bands frame the sides and top of the four 2nd-floor windows above the entry. These are flanked by a pair of large bracket-bases that carry a shallow stone balcony at the 3rd floor's center windows, the underside of which has an egg-and-dart molding, and the top a railing in a delicate swirling pattern. The 3rd floor is transitional, with brick piers outlined in stone, and stone surrounds at each bay, with band courses above and below.

At the 5th-9th floors the end bays have stone lintels with large keystones, and are fronted by black iron balconies, each carried on three pairs of very thin iron brackets. The other bays have stone sills with small, footed brackets. The 10th floor has sill courses at each bay, and the piers have projecting bases for short, stone pilasters, each with vertical grooves, topped by large scrolled brackets wrapped with wreaths. A dentiled cornice runs along these brackets, setting off the top two floors.

The brick piers at the 11th-12th floors have outlined rectangles in stone, topped by additional large scrolled brackets. There are splayed lintels with keystones above the windows, and the tripartite bays change to paired windows at the top floor, where each window is topped by a round-arch and keystone. The 12th floor also has black iron balconies at the end bays and the inner windows of the center paired windows. The facade is crowned by a dark-green metal roof cornice with dentils and cresting at each bracket.

There are light wells at the middle of both side elevations, lined with single- and double-windows. There is also a single-window bay at the front and rear sections of the east elevation. The building was converted to a co-op in 1971, with 66 apartments.