Colton Hall

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11-story Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1927. Designed by Leonard Cox and Arthur C. Holden, it is clad in brown brick above a 2-story limestone base, fronted by a low limestone wall enclosing planter boxes.

The building has a simple facade of subdued modernism, dominated by the steel casement windows, some of them quite oversized. The main facade is organized into five sections, with the 2nd from each end projecting slightly forward from the rest. The center section has two bays of large casement windows, to the outside of each of which is a narrower casement window. The main entrance is at the eastern of these two bays, with black wood-and-glass double-doors below a rounded green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. There is a smaller window at the ground floor in the other bay, and the narrow windows are replaced by secondary entrances with black metal doors at the ground floor. The eastern of the two middle bays has black metal spandrels between alternating floors, and there are decorative iron railings fronting the bases of the windows across this whole section at the 5th, 7th, & 9th floors.

The projecting bays both have square casement windows, except for at the 10th floor which has tripartite windows, and the narrower sections of the 11th floor, which has narrower but double-height windows. The end bays have wide casement windows at the outer ends, with narrow ones next to them. There are also extremely narrow windows in the sides of the projecting bays.

The middle and outer bays set back above the 10th floor, with metal railings at the roof line. The building contains 34 apartments.