15 West 107th Street (New York City, New York) | condominiums

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6-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1906. Designed by George F. Pelham as a tenement, it is clad in grey brick with limestone trim above a rusticated limestone ground floor. There are paired windows at both ends bays on the ground floor, separated by stone mullions with gilded Corinthian capitals. Next to the west end bay are two segmental-arched bays recessed in beveled surrounds. The western one has a double-window and the eastern one contains the entrance, with a steel-framed glass door, sidelight, and arched transom. The entrance is fronted by a two grey granite steps with low sidewalls. These two bays are framed by three gilded console brackets, with both arches having a gilded keystone supporting a projecting section of the band course that caps the ground floor. The center of the ground floor has a slightly-wider single-window bay, with three narrower single-windows to the right. All of the ground-floor windows have splayed lintels with gilded keystones.

The upper floors are symmetrical. The center bay has paired windows framed by three paneled stone pilasters with diamond shapes at their centers and Corinthian capitals. The stone lintels have small roundels above each pilaster, and are topped by stone spandrels between floors, decorated with cartouches and floral ornament. There is a rounded pediment between the 3rd & 4th floors instead (with a cartouche inside), and a stone cornice sets off the top floor, which has thin, horizontal banding in the brickwork. Stone cornices top the window bays (below the spandels) at the 2nd and 4th-6th floors, with a final cartouche above the cornice at the 6th floor. The end bays exactly match the center bay. In between, each side has three single-window bays. On the 2nd floor they have full stone surrounds with keystones and small bell flowers hanging from the upper corners. The floors above have simple stone sills and splayed stone lintels with keystones. A pair of white iron fire escapes with decorative railings run down the facade over the inner two of the single-windows bays on each side. The roof cornice that originally crowned the facade has been removed, leaving a bare stone parapet.