The Lyons Cooperative | apartment building, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

 cooperative, apartment building, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

138-foot, 13-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1914. Designed by Robert T. Lyons, it is clad in brown brick above a 2-story rusticated limestone base with a rather high, light-grey granite water table. The facade has six bays, with double-windows separated by black metal mullions in the two center bays and end bays, and single-windows in the other two bays. The main entrance takes the place of the eastern center bay, with bronze-and-glass double-doors atop two granite steps and below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The doors are set in a molded surround, flanked by matching pilasters with console brackets carrying a dentiled cornice above a white marble panel. The windows at the ground floor have iron grilles, and there are low basement windows below them, at the sidewalk level, growing taller toward the west due to the slope of the site; at the west end is a gated basement entry down several steps. The base is capped by a dentiled stone cornice.

The upper floors have regular brick quoins at the edges that match the width of the uniform rusticated on the base. The 3rd-floor windows have brick surrounds with stone corners, and the other floors have simple stone sills and brick lintels. The 10th floor is set off by a stone band course, and spanning the middle bays is a projecting stone balcony with balusters between five square posts supported by paired brackets. Between the 10th & 11th floors the middle four bays have stone spandrels decorated with shields flanked by garlands. Slightly-projecting, 2-story brick pilasters rise from the balcony posts, extending up to another band course and modillioned cornice below the 12th floor. The 12th floor is crowned by a brick roof parapet with stone coping; it has a broad, shallow, rounded pediment at the center, a garland panel on either side, and small, flat-topped pediments with shields closer to the ends, which are lower.

There is a set-back penthouse level behind the parapet. The building was converted to a cooperative in 1983, with 53 apartments.