305 Lexington Avenue

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157-foot, 13-story Neo-Georgian residential building completed in 1924. Designed by Charles B. Meyers, it is clad in brown brick above a 2-story limestone base. Meyers also designed by hotel next door to the south in a similar manner, for the same owner. The entrance is centered, with paneled black wood-and-glass double-doors set in a molding with a decorative band across the top, surmounted by a panel of swags and small rosettes that is framed by slender scrolled brackets carrying a rounded, dentiled pediment with a carved urn and foliate ornament. Above it, at the 2nd floor, is a slightly-projecting stone panel with a rosette flanked by garlands and topped by an ogee scroll. To either side the ground floor has two smallish windows with iron grilles, and the 2nd floor has two larger windows with iron railings across the bases. There is also a black metal service door at the north end.

The brick upper floors are set off by a stone band course with rosettes and triglyphs, and have two bays of paired windows in the middle, with end bays of wider single-windows. At the 3rd floor they have terra-cotta enframements with bead moldings, and elaborately decorative panels at the tops, surmounted by cornices (with rounded pediments at the end bays). There is also a band of ornamented terra-cotta joining the tops of each window. The windows above have stone sills.

At the 9th floor the middle two bays have a stone balustrade below the windows, carried on six brackets. The 11th floor is set off by a band course, and topped by a cornice with modillions and a frieze of garlands. Its windows have stone enframements. The 12th floor has round-arched stone enframements, and the brick at the top two floors is redder in color. A simple stone coping marks the roof line.

The building contains 50 apartment units.