67th Street Studios

 cooperative, apartment building

14-story Art-Nouveau/Arts and Crafts-style cooperative-apartment building completed in 1903 as one of the first artist studio buildings in the city. Designed by Simonson & Sturgis, it is clad in brick (orange at some of the bays and around most piers, and a variegated color pattern elsewhere) and orange terra-cotta. There is an exposed basement level set behind a basement "moat" and iron fence with brick posts (with limestone bases and caps). The facade spans six bays, and the right-middle bay extends out at the ground floor to the fence line, where the main entrance is set in a 1-story brick-and-stone enclosure with wood-and-glass double-doors; above the doors is an stone arch and carved stone ribbons bearing the inscription "SIXTY SEVENTH STREET STUDIOS" below a lamp of colored glass. The arch is lined by a fine detailed molding, an to either side is a shield bearing the address number 27. Above these is a stone cornice with modillions, peaked at the center above the arch. There is a window opening in both sides of the extended entryway.

To the left of the entry, the left-middle bay has a segmental-arched window at the ground floor. The end bays have wide many-paned windows and the next bays in have narrower many-paned windows, all with dark-green wooden sash. The outer bays are topped by flat stone lintels, and the inner bays have brick segmental-arches with stone ends. Each bay is also slightly recessed between 2-story orange terra-cotta edgings. At the 2nd floor the middle bays have paired windows separated by projecting, vertical terra-cotta bands, and there are projecting brick hooded lintels over the window bays.

The 3rd floor is set off by a modillioned stone band course, with another above the 10th floor. The upper floors also have window bays grouped into 2-story units by terra-cotta moldings. The projecting, vertical terra-cotta elements repeat at the middle bays on the 4th, 6th, and 8th floors. The top floors have variegated brick, with the orange brick and terra-cotta elements below. Only the center portion of the roof line is marked by a modillioned cornice.

The building contains 32 residential units, and was converted to a co-op in 1973.