599 Eleventh Avenue (New York City, New York)

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8-story office building completed in 1922. Designed by William M. Farrar, it is clad in brown brick. The east facade on the avenue is organized into four bays, between slightly-projecting piers. The main entrance is located at the south bay where the brick is painted a rustic red. It has a banded brick round-arch with a keystone, and three low, stone steps leading up to aluminum-and-glass double-doors below a fanlight. The other three bays have paired windows with limestone sills and lintels, and there are similar windows in the bays of the upper floors. A basement areaway is fronted by a black metal railing, with paired basement windows.

The brick spandrels above the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th & 8th floors have long outlined rectangles, while those above the other floors have pairs of smaller outlined rectangles, one above each window. There is a dentiled brick band course at the roof line, extending over the piers, and a small, brick-clad mechanical penthouse rising up from the south end.

The north facade on 45th Street is similar to the east facade, but with five bays. The ground floor has windows in the eastern two bays (with a basement areaway), and various loading docks and service doors in the western three.

The south facade is also brick, with a beige stuccoes section at the front of the lower two floors. There are three bays of single-windows at the west side. The west facade has three bays of paired windows, with narrower openings at the south end; there are no windows at the north end. There is a brick chimney running the full heights of the building and extending above the roof line at the southwest corner.