The Joseph (New York City, New York)

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8-story Neo-Federal residential building completed in 1910. Designed by Lawlor & Haase, it was originally called "The Southfield". The facade is clad in brown brick with beige terra-cotta trim above a 2-story rusticated limestone base. The 3rd floor is transitional, with more rusticated limestone, but brown brick banding on the piers.

The centered entrance has iron gated double-doors below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. A grey-painted stone porch spans the basement areaways on either side, and has low stone sidewalls topped by a pair of lantern posts. The doors are framed by paneled pilasters with scrolled brackets carrying a cornice with egg-and-dart moldings. On either side of the doorway are paired single-windows (two bays of three single-windows above the ground floor). Further toward the ends each floor has three more single-windows slightly wider-spaced apart. The western ground-floor windows have iron grilles, and all of the windows on the lower two floors are topped by splayed lintels with keystones. The ends of the facade project out just slightly from the center section.

Topping the 2nd floor is a stone band course with a wave motif above a recessed band with rosettes. The 3rd floor is topped by a stone cornice with dentils above a row of roundels. The upper floors have stone quoins at the edges of both outer sections, and splayed stone lintels with keystones on each window. A narrow stone string course separates the 5th & 6th floors. The 8th floor is set off by a stone cornice, and has stone enframements around each window, with keystones. The original roof cornice has been removed, leaving a bare parapet.

The side elevations are clad in red brick, with no openings at the front and back, and central light wells with a few bays of single- and double-windows. The building contains 42 apartment units.