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125-foot, 12-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1900 as a 10-story hotel. Designed by Buchman & Deisler, it is the upper west side's second-oldest surviving tall building after the Dakota. It was renovated into condominiums, with a duplex penthouse on top, reopening in 2014 with 26 units. The facades are clad in red brick and limestone, with a 2-story rusticated stone base that has a grey granite water table.

The main entrance is at the west end of the north facade on 80th Street, slightly recessed in a double-height round-arch with beveled edges. The entry has glass double-doors, narrow sidelights, and a fanlight set in a paneled, grey cast-iron surround; the doorway is covered by a rounded, light-grey canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. There is a rosette above and on both sides of the canopy, with a paneled cast-iron spandrel (decorated with another rosette) dividing the 2nd floor, which has a tripartite window under the arch, and crowned by an elaborate stone cartouche that overlaps the band course capping the base. The middle bay at the ground floor has two sets of paired windows with stone mullions and iron grilles; on the floors above these are single-windows. At the west end the ground floor has a plate-glass storefront with an iron cornice, and the 2nd floor has two single-windows with keystones, as do those in the middle bay.

Along the avenue the ground floor is lined with four bays of plate-glass-and-metal storefronts in the center, with another plate-glass storefront at the north end, and two narrower round-arched openings at the south end, one with a service door and the other with a storefront entrance with glass double-doors below a clamshell canopy. The four middle storefront bays are separated by projecting, paneled, dark-grey cast-iron pilasters, with a continuous iron cornice across the top of all four. Like on the north facade, the end bays project just slightly forward. The 2nd floor has paired windows in the middle bays, and two single-windows spaced farther apart in the end bays. These all have simple stone sills and scrolled keystones interrupting the stone band course capping the base.

The upper floors on the east facade have double-windows in all six bays. The 3rd floor is banded with limestone on the piers and the windows have limestone surrounds that are also crossed by the bands. Framing the end bays are console brackets that carry balustraded stone balconies at the 4th floor. The stone surrounds at the 4th-8th floors have keys at the edges; they are grouped into 2-story units at the 4th-5th & 6th-7th floors, and are segmental-arched at the 8th floor's middle bays. Between the 4th & 5th floors, and the 6th & 7th, are stone spandrels with decorative panels between medallions at the ends, above egg-and-dart moldings. The middle bays have ornate wrought-iron railings across the bases of the windows at the 4th & 6th floors (on narrow stone cornices), and also at the end bays of the 8th floor, while the end bays at the 5th floor are topped by rounded stone pediments broken by escutcheons. Large, scrolled keystones top the end bays at the 8th floor, and cartouches top the middle bays here, with a rounded band course capping the 8th floor.

The 9th floor is faced completely in stone, and has stone mullions between the paired windows. The piers are adorned by elaborate, projecting stone ornament at the middle section, with oversized console brackets at the end bays, supporting a projecting, modillioned stone cornice that is topped by a wrought-iron railing. The 10th floor has brick piers and stone surrounds and is crowned by a copper cornice. There is a 2-story penthouse added to the middle of the roof, also clad in red brick, with four bays of windows on both floors. There is stone quoins at the edges and keystones above the windows, with metal cornices above both floors. A smaller 1-story penthouse section extends to the north, with another farther back at the south end.

The upper floors on the north facade have the same design as those on the east, but with only two middle bays with single-windows. The building contains 20 condominium units. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Pure Barre fitness studio, Monica + Andy baby clothing store, bocnyc women's clothing store, The Culture Center event space, and Billy's Bakery.