Trinity House Apartments

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321-foot, 29-story modernist residential building completed in 1969. Designed by Brown, Guenther, Battaglia & Seckler, it was built by the Trinity School, part of which occupies the base, as a Mitchell-Lama development (an affordable housing program created in 1955 to provide affordable rental and cooperative housing to moderate- and middle-income families).

The base is three stories at the north end, where the main entrance faces 92nd Street. Behind it, the base drops to two floors, with the tower rising up at the north half of the site. At the south end, stretching to 91st Street, the base continues with two floors. The lower two floors of the base are clad in orange-tan brick, with concrete piers and concrete bands across the top of the 2nd floor. The piers have projecting edges and wider, recessed center sections. The main entrance is deeply-recessed and centered on the north facade, with glass double-doors flanked by glass walls; there are two black metal service doors in the west sidewall of the entry area, and it is covered by a white concrete canopy. To the left is a single-window (with stone sill and lintel, and metal grille), followed by a set of recessed, grey metal service doors between a pair of piers, and another single-window near the east end. To the right it is the same, but without the first window. The 2nd floor has short, narrow bands of windows tucked below the concrete band on top, interrupted by the piers. The 3rd floor is slightly set back, faced in white metal siding, and also has bands of windows. Its roof slopes up toward the tower behind it.

On the east facade along the avenue, the base's materials are the same. Five concrete piers support the tower, as well as a corner pier at the north end, and another far down to the south. There is a single-window at the north end, three more flanking the northern two piers at the tower, and five more spaced out across the south half of the base. The narrow window bands continue along the 2nd floor, topped by the broad concrete band, and the rooftop of the 2-story south part of the base is topped by a pair of tennis courts.

The south facade of the base, on 91st Street, has a single-window next to the corner pier at the east end, followed by four piers that have grey metal service doors embedded in them at the ground floor. Farther west is a wide section with a band of ground-floor windows and a glass door; the around immediately around the door has wood paneling, also extending below the shorter windows to the left. The west end of the base, framed by two piers, has a school entrance, with four metal-and-glass doors covered by a tan metal canopy, sloped on the bottom with wood paneling. The narrow 2nd-floor window bands stop before this section; instead there is a large bronze medallion at the 2nd floor with the school's coat of arms. The upper school division of the Trinity School occupies the base, with the other divisions in adjoining, neighboring buildings on the block.

The tower is faced in cast-concrete, with four bays on the east and west facades, separated by wide piers, each with two vertical notches; the narrower end piers have single notches. The double-windows in each bay are recessed between the piers, and the black metal vents in the spandrels between floors are also recessed between thinner, horizontal concrete beams as well as the piers. There are boldly-projecting concrete balconies at the 4th floor on the east side. The north and south facades have nine total bays, with projecting balconies with metal railings in the center bay and next-to-end bays, and double-windows in all the others, with spandrels and vents like on the east and west elevations. There are no openings at the east and west ends of the north and south facades.

The building contains 200 apartment units.