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12-story Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1926 as a warehouse. Designed by Parker & Shaffer, it was built for the Hartford Courant newspaper, and converted to a residential co-op in 1981, with 26 apartments. It is clad in brown brick above a limestone ground floor on the front facade. The main entrance is recessed at the east end, with a metal-framed glass door and sidelights below a 3-pane transom separated by a brown-painted metal lintel decorated with small rosettes, a central cartouche, and a line of small finials along the top. Above the entry is a rectangular stone panel with a quatrefoil. At the middle of the ground floor are two stainless-steel-framed plate-glass storefronts, and the west end has a loading dock with a matching quatrefoil panel.

The upper floors have four wide bays between slightly-projecting brick piers, each with a window divided into three double panes with three upper panes across them, in grey metal framing. There are trios of rectangular brick panels in the spandrels. The 7th floor is topped by a band of white terra-cotta with rows of arches around roundels and finials at the piers, and there is a setback above it. There are additional setbacks above the 9th & 11th floors, also defined by decorative terra-cotta bands and finials.

The side elevations are also brick, with a couple bays of windows at the front and back ends. The rear facade has setbacks above the 6th, 8th, & 10th floors.