The Olmstead Condominium

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210-foot, 20-story modernist residential building completed in 1962. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it occupies a southwestern plot of the superblock knows as Park West Village. In all there are seven residential buildings in the block, four slab towers oriented east-west, and another three running north-south at the west end (built much later in 2011), with parking and park space in the middle. The corresponding southern buildings at 372 & 382 Central Park West are mirror-images of the northern pair, known as The Vaux and Olmsted.

The facades are clad in pale red brick. The main entrance is at the center of the south facade facing 97th Street, with glass double-doors next to two plate-glass windows. The upper floors have two bays of double windows in the center, flanked to either side by triple-windows joined to glass doors that open onto the ends of wide, projecting balconies spanning from door to door and across the center bays; the balconies have mostly horizontal metal railings. Continuing to either side are tripartite windows, double-windows, three wide tripartite bays, a narrow double-window, a wider double-window, and recessed end bays with shorter, projecting balconies.

The north facade is similar, but has three evenly-spaced balconies between the shorter end bays. The narrow east and west facades have two bays of triple-windows.

The building was converted from rental apartments to condominiums in 1989, with 413 units.

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