1801 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (New York City, New York)

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6-story Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1915. Designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a white-painted, rusticated limestone ground floor with a light-grey granite water table. The main entrance is just north of center on the west facade. It has a recessed grey-metal-framed glass door between sidelights (with the glass decorated by a sunbeam pattern across the three), topped by a transom. The doorway is framed by a bellflower molding with a keystone, and is flanked by paneled pilasters with large console brackets carrying a band with a Greek fret motif. To the north is a single-window and a double-window, and to the south is a single-window, and then another single-window and a double-window at the south end, all with iron grilles (which bow out at the bottoms of the single-windows).

The upper floors have double-windows at both ends. The middle has two bays of paired windows flanked by slightly-wider single-windows. They all have simple stone sills and brick lintels, with scrolled keystones at the middle two windows and the end bays on the 3rd-5th floors. The 2nd floor has a stone sill and lintel course, with keystones at each window, and thin ribs at the piers. The piers themselves have subtly projecting brick panels. The end bays at the 3rd-5th floors are framed by vertical bands of decorative brickwork, topped at the 5th floor by Art-Deco stone capitals with stone bands between them. The 6th floor also has a stone sill and lintel course, and the end bays have stone surrounds edged in roundels. The lintel course is surmounted by a stone cornice with small dentils, and the roof line is marked by a stone coping above a brick parapet. At the north end, above the end bay, the roof parapet extends up higher, with a pair of stone shields flanking a geometric stone form framed by a pair of vertical slits on either side and topped by a large stone circle.

The ground floor of the south facade on Central Park North has, from west to east, a paired-window bay, two single-windows, a wider single-window, a much smaller window, another wide single-window, two more regular single-windows, and a single-window paired with a double-window. There are also two very low basement windows in the water table, one near the center and one at the west end.

The upper floors have paired window bays at each end. In between are two single-window on either side and two tripartite-windows in the center. The trim is similar to that seen on the west facade. At the roof line both end bays match the north end bay on the west facade, with shields and other ornament. There is a fire escape near the east end.