The Glass Farmhouse

 condominium, commercial building

171-foot, 13-story Neo-Renaissance mixed-use building completed in 1915. Designed by Hill & Stout as a school building, it was later converted to purely commercial use and called the Underhill Building; it was renovated in 1981 to mixed-use, with commercial units on the first four floors, manufacturing on Floor 5, live/work on Floor 6, and Floors 7 – PH for residential/professional use.

The facade is clad in dark-red brick with limestone and colored terra-cotta trim. The building has a service entrance at 438 West 37th and residential entrance at 448 West 37th Street. Both are set in pointed-arches framed in stone. These stone surrounds have quoins that extend up along the piers of the 2nd floor as well, where a stone-and-terra-cotta band caps the base. The west entrance is has glass double-doors and a tall, arched transom deeply recessed atop a set of stone steps. The east entrance is only slightly recessed, with no steps. Both surrounds have pairs of colored terra-cotta medallions above the ends of the arches, and small urns engaged with the wall, capping the ends of the thin, decorative sills of the 2nd floor's end-bay windows (2-over-3 panes). The middle of the base has three bays, each divided into two parts, with iron-framed casement windows at the ground floor (a loading dock replaces the easternmost window), and 3-over-3 windows at the 2nd floor, separated from the ground floor by iron spandrels decorated with anchors, sea creatures, and ribbons flanking fields of shells. The piers between the bays are banded by white stone.

The upper floors have similar pairs of 3-over-3 windows in the three main bays, and 2-over-3 windows in the end bays. The window pairs in the main bays are separated by terra-cotta pilasters with blue-and-white Renaissance ornament. The spandrels between floors have light-grey brick with a central, small, projecting cube of blue terra-cotta surrounded by a small diamond shape of red brick, and topped by elaborate bands of colored terra-cotta with small cartouches and ribbons. At the base of the 3rd floor, the piers are highlighted by Renaissance capitals.

A scalloped band course caps the 10th floor, with elaborate capitals at the piers. The 11th floor has elaborate stone piers with arched niches, and is topped by another decorative band course. The 12th-13th floors have banded piers, and the middle bays have tripartite windows with angled ends that are recessed into the facade. Cast-iron spandrels divide the two floors within each bay. The facade is crowned by a terra-cotta roof cornice with modillions, and colorful geometric ornament at each pier.

The east elevation is brick, but without ornament. It has four single-windows at the front, and four more at the rear, although some don't begin until the 5th floor.

The building contains 52 condominium units.