12 West 101st Street

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6-story Romanesque/Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building originally completed in 1904, matching the buildings on either side. Designed by Bernstein & Bernstein, the facade is clad in dark-red brick with limestone trim, above a rusticated limestone ground floor.

The facade has six single-windows grouped into three bays of paired windows. The entrance is in the eastern side of the center bay, with a glass-and-metal door, sidelight, and transom in a stone molding. Three columns of polished brown granite on paneled plinths front the center section of the ground floor, with Corinthian capitals supporting an entablature and cornice. Iron fencing encloses the basement areaways on either side. Scrolled keystones top the windows at the outer bays.

The upper floors also have three bays of paired windows. The outer bays have cream-colored stone surrounds from the 2nd-5th floors, with thin egg-and-dart moldings, and the 2nd floor is banded with stone, with the bands also crossing the surrounds. There are also stone spandrels between the floors in these bays, connecting the surrounds, and shallow, rounded pediments topping the 3rd floor, with elaborate foliate ornament. The center-bay windows also have stone surrounds at the 2nd floor, with moldings and scrolled keystones, and the other floors have splayed stone lintels with scrolled keystones. The 6th floor is set off by a thin string course, and a black metal fire escape runs down the middle of the facade, which is crowned by a stone roof cornice.