The Musician's Building

 cooperative, apartment building

8-story Neo-Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1917. Designed by Shape & Bready, it is clad in red brick, limestone, and beige terra-cotta. It was built as housing for musicians, with soundproof apartments. The building is arranged in an H-shape, with deep light wells at the north and south, and also shallow light wells on the east and west elevations. The ground floor is limestone with a grey granite water table, with the main entrance recessed at the back of the light well on 67th Street, and a rounded, grey canvas canopy extending out and over the sidewalk. To either side is a narrow double-window, two sets of paired windows, and a gated service entrance. All of the windows are multi-paned, with black sash.

The upper floors have the two sets of paired windows continuing up the middle of each wing, set in stone and terra-cotta, with terra-cotta panels in between floors bearing shields and ribbons. The narrow double-window bay to either side is bordered on the ends by vertical bands of terra-cotta, and these windows all have curved, black iron railings across the bases. A terra-cotta band course decorated with leafy ornament runs below the 7th floor, continuing a short way onto the front of the light court's side walls. The 8th-floor windows are topped by drip moldings, and the facade has a terra-cotta parapet with quatrefoils, crockets, and other ornamental forms.

The inner-facing walls of the north light court both have two bays of double-windows with a narrow bathroom window in between. The rear wall of the north light court has, above the entrance, paired windows set in stone and terra-cotta. The building contains 60 apartments.