125 Central Park North Condominium (New York City, New York) | condominiums, interesting place

 condominiums, interesting place

120-foot, 11-story Beaux-Arts residential building originally completed in 1927 as a 7-story hospital building designed by Emery Roth. In 1996 it became a children's shelter called Hale House. The building was converted to condominiums in 2006, with new floors added to the top to include five penthouses, designed by Peter Franzese.

The original upper floors are clad in variegated red, tan, and grey brick, with a rusticated limestone ground floor. There are three single-windows in the middle (with very low basement openings below them at sidewalk level), and a round-arched entrance at both ends. The main entrance is at the west end, with a black metal-and-glass double-doors below a large fanlight with wrought-iron tracery. The east entrance is to a commercial space, and has black metal-framed glass double-doors in a stone molding; above is a stone arch with two putti and ribbons flanking a shield. Both arches have keystones.

The brick upper floors have five bays of single-windows, with stone surrounds at the 2nd floor, including small shields and cornices at the end bays. There are metal vents cut below some of the other windows. A stone sill course underlines the 7th floor, where there is some decorative brickwork on the piers. The end bays at this floor have stone balustrades at their bases, supported by pairs of scrolled brackets. They are framed by small, engaged stone columns with stylized capitals, and keystones at the top of the windows.

There is a slight setback in the middle to the newer 8th floor, also clad in brick, with three bays of double-windows; the outer two have low metal railings across their bases. The ends of the 8th floor are more set back, each with a double-window. The top three floors are faced in beige cast-stone and slightly further set back. They have wide double-windows on the left, a single-window paired with a wide triple-window in the middle, and single-windows on the right.

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