National Arts Club Studio Building (New York City, New York)

 office building, cooperative, art studio

143-foot, 13-story Gothic-revival cooperative studio building completed in 1906. Designed by George B. Post, it is adjacent to the National Arts Club's headquarters to the north, the former Samuel Tilden home, at 15 Gramercy Park South. It was a cooperative building with studio spaces designed for artists to live and work in. Post was not only the designer of this building, but the first president of the National Arts Club. The studio building was erected on the former rear gardens of the Tilden Home after it was purchased to become the club's new headquarters. As designed, the newer building included clubrooms for "affiliated societies," exhibition space, and artist studios.

The facade is clad in reddish-bown brick with terra-cotta trim above a ground floor of Belleville grey rock and a granite basement level. The upper floors have two single-windows in the center and three bays of single-windows at each end. They are relatively unadorned, the decoration relying mostly on a stone band course above the 13th floor and an elaborate roof cornice. The architects focused their decorative attention on the neo-Gothic stone base.

Here the entrance sits within a pointed Gothic arch. Flanking paneled piers are adorned with Gothic tracery and protruding gargoyles. Directly above the entrance an arcade of pointed arches is topped by a deeply carved frieze of somewhat humorous faces peering from among swirling leaves.

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