46 West 96th Street

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6-story Beaux-Arts cooperative-apartment building completed in 1905. Designed by George F. Pelham, it is clad in red brick with white stone and terra-cotta trim above a banded limestone ground floor. The centered, segmental-arched entrance is atop two stone steps and has glass-and-wood double-doors below a rounded, grey canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To either side are two single-windows with iron grilles and carved panels of foliate ornament below them. There is a basement area below, clad in white brick, also with two single-windows on each side. Two scrolled brackets around the entrance support a stone balcony ledge at the 2nd floor's center bay. There are three scrolled brackets at both ends bays, supporting the bases of the slightly-projecting outer bays, which have paired windows on the upper floors. The center bay has three single-windows. The end bays are lined with white stone keys, and are banded in white terra-cotta at the 2nd floor. There are stone pilasters between the windows, decorated with lions' heads, ribbons, flowers, and other ornament, and with scrolled keystones on the stone lintels.

The center bay has splayed lintels with scrolled keystones at the 3rd & 4th floors, and the 5th floor has arched windows in the center bay, topped by scrolled keystones flanked by fruit garlands. The end bays have stone surrounds, with ornament on the pilasters in between the windows; there are rounded pediments with cartouches at the 3rd floor, triangular pediments with cartouches at the 4th, and scrolled keystones at the 5th. The 6th floor is set off by a band course, and is banded with terra-cotta. The windows all have splayed stone lintels with scrolled keystones. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with modillions, dentils, and triglyphs, projecting slightly at the end bays.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1983, with 12 apartments.