The Endicott

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7.5-story Romanesque-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1891 as the Hotel Endicott. Designed by Edward L. Angell, it was converted to residential use in 1981 by architect Stephen B. Jacobs. The building has four main sections facing the avenue, each divided by a narrow, deep light well above the ground floor. At the west end, two wings wrap around a palm court (a glass-roofed lower atrium in the center). The facades are clad in orange Pompeian brick and terra-cotta. Along the avenue the east facade's ground floor is lined with green metal-and-glass storefronts topped by a green metal dentiled cornice. At the center this large cornice is interrupted by a beige stone section separated into two smaller bays. The northern one has a residential building entrance with glass double-doors, and the southern is a smaller glass storefront. There is a pair of Doric columns to the south of this center storefront, three more in between these two bays, and a final column on the north side; they carry a broad entablature with a smaller cornice on top.

Above the ground floor each of the four facade sections has a projecting bay with three windows, the end ones angled. The southern two projecting bays are located directly on either side of the southern narrow light well, and the northern two also flank the north light well. At the south end the first section has a bay of single-windows directly south of the projecting bay, followed by three more single-windows spaced closer together. The northern section is a mirror-image of this. The two middle sections both have five single-windows between their projecting bays and the central light well. The cornice above the ground floor also angles around the projecting bays, and at the main roof line, a prominent beige metal cornice, with brackets and dentils, also angles around these bays; the roof cornice also spans the light wells, linking the four sections.

The 2nd-floor windows not in the angled, projecting bays are framed by terra-cotta quoins, and all of them have flat terra-cotta lintels with a single, small circle at the centers. Terra-cotta string courses separate the 2nd & 3rd floors, with terra-cotta panels carved with intricate ornament in each bay between these two floors. Slightly-projecting brick pilasters flank the non-projecting-bay windows at the 3rd floor, which also have flat terra-cotta lintels. Topping each pilasters at the non-projecting bays are fluted sections surmounted by Corinthian capitals, and topping most of the windows of brick round-arches surrounding terra-cotta panels with more elaborate ornament. These exceptions are the windows in the angled facets of the projecting bays, which are instead topped by rectangular panels with similar carvings. The capitals of the pilasters support a terra-cotta sill course running below the 4th floor, and there are also sill courses below the floors above. The window decoration is simpler on the upper floors, merely with terra-cotta quoins and flat lintels.

The south facade on 81st Street has a brownstone ground floor, rusticated at the east end, where there is a short return of the glass storefront from the east facade, and the green metal cornice also wraps around to cradle the base of the first of this facade's three projecting, angled bays. The main residential entrance is centered on this facade, with wood-and-glass double-doors behind a wide portico formed by four sets of paired columns on plinths. The columns, each with a Corinthian capital, are placed in front of flat pilasters behind them and support an entablature and cornice forming the top of the portico. Between the outer pilasters, flanking the doors, a single-windows with iron grilles. A decorative wrought-iron railing spans the outer columns in front, with continuations of these railings continuing to span across the rest of the facade to either end. Above the portico is a 2-story central bay of three windows, projecting forward, with carved panels between the 2nd & 3rd floors, and above the center window at the 3rd floor; above the other two are balustrades with spheres topping the end blocks. Here terminates this section of the projecting bay; on the upper floors it matches the other two, with three windows per floor and angled sides, just like on the east facade. The eastern projecting bay on the south facade is near the east end, while the western one is followed by a further three bays of single-windows at the west end. Between the central projecting bay and the western one are four bays of single-windows, and between the central bay and the eastern one are two narrow single-windows and a trio of slightly wider ones. The ornament, including pilasters, lintels, sill courses, and carved panels, matches that seen on the east facade. On the ground floor, to the right of the main entrance portico, is a single-window
with a grooved surrounds, topped by a triangular pediment. To the left of the portico there is a double-window and a single-windows, the base of the west projecting bay (with three windows), and three more single-windows, all with iron grilles. The piers flanking each of these window are paneled, with stylized capitals. At the western projecting bay, the top of the ground floor features a sort of entablature that flares outward in a curve toward the top, highlighted by a cartouche flanked by swirling foliate ornament. There is a narrow alley at the west end, with one bay of windows at the front edge, carrying over all of the design features from the south facade. The rest of the west elevation is plain brick, with several bays of narrow single-windows, some segmental-arched.

The north facade on 82nd Street nearly matches the south facade, with a few changeds. There are two windows with triangular pediments at the ground floor between the storefront at the end and the central portico. The doorway in the portico opens into a restaurant area that also extends to the west end of the ground floor, where there is a secondary glass door in the 2nd bay, topped by a projecting, carved panel with a triangular pediment. At the west end there is a rounded corner, and the final bay is angled around this corner; this roof cornice is also rounded at the corner. The north wing of the west elevation is clad in brick, with several bays of narrow single-windows, some segmental-arched.

There are several varied penthouse units on the main roof. The building contains 143 apartments. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Frank Stella Clothier, Jacadi Paris boutique, a Starbucks Coffee, The Milling Room Tavern, Savor Beauty facial spa, The Strand book store, Luxcucina interior design, and Greenstones clothing store, with Flame Hibachi restaurant on 82nd Street.