110 West 96th Street | apartment building

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166-foot, 15-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1927. Designed by George A. Bagge & Sons, it is clad in light-brown brick with white stone trim. The white stone water table is interrupted by the centered entrance, with wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom in a stone molding; the entablature on top has simple Renaissance ornament and a thin cornice. There is a 2-story, lightly-banded stone area around the entrance, with a single-window on either side at the ground floor, and two double-windows at the 2nd floor. To the east are two more single-windows on the ground floor, and to the west is a single-window and a secondary entrance at the top of a ramp descending to the east, with a black wood-and-glass door. Adjoining this door is a black metal service door set lower at the sidewalk level; all of these ground-floor windows and the doors at the west end have white stone surrounds with small cornices. The 2nd-floor windows have bracketed white stone sills and brick lintels. The 2nd floor is capped by a dentiled stone string course.

The upper floors also have two bay of double-windows in the middle and two single-windows bays on either side. They have brick surrounds at the 3rd floor, with stone octagons featuring vases on the piers between the middle bays and 2nd-from-end bays. There are narrow brick sill courses below the 7th, 10th, and 13th floors. There is a large, central cartouche at the top of the 9th floor, flanked by a pair of garlands. The 13th floor has three more octagonal medallions on the piers around the middle bays, and the top two floors are set off by a stone cornice. The 14th-15th floors have pairs of 2-story stone pillars on the piers around the middle bays, and there are stone spandrels between the floors in each bay. The facade is crowned by a beige, modillioned stone cornice.

The east and west elevations are clad in brown brick with no openings, except at the wide light wells at the center of each, which are lined with single-windows. The building contains 60 apartment units.