The Larchmont

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7-story Beaux-Arts cooperative-apartment building completed in 1900. Designed by Neville & Bagge, it matches the narrower building directly to the south, except for retaining the roof cornice and different paint at the ground floor, and is very similar to the building to the west, which has the same materials, but a somewhat varied design. The facade is clad in red brick with beige terra-cotta trim above a ground floor of banded limestone, with the basement level painted grey. At the center of the east facade on Central Park West a very low stoop leads to a glass-and-wood door and transom. They are framed by white-painted, fluted pilasters, with fluted columns in front forming a portico, the entablature of which (also painted) has floral ornament and a bracket at each end, and is topped by a black iron decorative railing.

To either side of the entry is a single-window. At the south end is a rounded bay of two windows, and the north end has a larger round bay at the corner, with three windows spaced around the curve, one facing northeast and the other two angled toward their respective facades. There are basement windows below both rounded bays, behind narrow areaways enclosed by iron fencing.

The upper floors on the east facade have three windows in the flat center section, with the same windows in the curved outer bays. The 2nd floor has horizontal banding that also crosses the window surrounds, which have splayed tops and are surmounted by rounded pediments in the middle bays and triangular pediments in the rounded outer bays. A stone band course caps the 2nd floor.

On the 3rd-6th floors the three sections are edged in terra-cotta keys. At the curved outer bays the 3rd-floor windows are topped by splayed lintels with scrolled keystones surmounted by cartouches with scrolls that support projecting sills at the windows above, which have wrought-iron railings. The 4th, 5th, & 6th floors also have splayed lintels with scrolled keystones and projecting sills. The center-bay windows are individually framed by terra-cotta keys and those on the 3rd & 5th floors have elaborate lintels with wreaths and console brackets. The 4th-floor windows have ornamented round-arches on top, surmounted by cartouches and scrolls, and there are panels with roundels below the windows. There are wrought-iron railings above the sills on the 4th floor at the outer bays, and on the 5th floor at the middle bays.

The 7th floor is set off by a band course and has banding and surrounds like the 2nd floor, but without pediments. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice that follows the rounded bays, with scrolled brackets and dentils.

The north facade on 105th Street continues the full rounded corner bay, and has two more curved bays of two windows each, at the middle and at the west end. In between are two flat spaces, both with three bays of single-windows, the center ones being smaller in the east section. A long basement areaway fronts the entire facade, behind more fencing, and has matching windows to every bay. All of the ornament and trim follows the design established on the east facade. A narrow, red metal fire escape runs down the east bay of the east flat section, and a wider fire escape cover the west two bays of the west flat section. The band course setting off the top floor is painted black along this facade.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1986, with 42 apartments.