Schottenstein Residence Hall

 university, dormitory, Georgian (architecture)

7-story residence hall consisting of two separate structures. The one facing 29th Street was originally completed in 1913 as a hotel. Designed by Valentine & Kissam, it was joined by a skybridge at the 4th/5th floor in 1930 to a new structure on Lexington Avenue, which served as a girls' home designed by Theodore H. Vought. The joined complex was purchased by Yeshiva University in 1995 to serve as a dormitory for 170 students in the Stern College for Women.

The 29th Street structure is an H in plan, with two shallow but deep light courts splitting it into two wings. The front facade is clad in ironspot brick above a 2-story, off-white painted stone base. The ground floor has horizontal banding with an iron entry gate between the wings, framed by a pair of fluted columns fronting pilasters, supporting a triangular pediment at the 2nd floor. To either side are two large round-arched windows at the 2nd floor, with white wooden sash, iron Juliet balconies, and scrolled keystones at the tops. Below them, the ground floor has two single-windows with iron grilles on the west side, and another window paired with a metal service door on the east side. The upper floors have two bays of single-windows on each wing, with stone sills and splayed brick lintels. At the 7th floor there is a stone band course, stone piers with brick panels, and a stone-and-brick archway spanning the two wings, with a large scrolled keystone; across the top of this floor is a stone cornice with large modillions, and smaller areas of dentils at the piers and across the archway.

The brick interior walls of the light court have three single-windows on the sides, and one at the back, with the ground floor having the main entrance down a couple of steps through iron gates, with a large round-arched window above at the 2nd floor. The east elevation of this building is plain beige stucco with one bay of narrow single-windows on either side of the skybridge linking it to the other building.

The Lexington Avenue structure's 6-bay east facade is also clad in red ironspot brick above a 2-story off-white stone base. There are round-arched entrances on both ends, both up short sets of red granite steps. The deeply-recessed main entrance on the right a glass door, while the less-recessed service entrance on the left has black metal doors. Between the doorways are two narrow single-windows and two regular single-windows with iron grilles. These are repeated on the upper floors, with the ends bays having another set of regular single-windows. At the 2nd floor, the narrow windows have small stone pedestal balconies, and these two bays are set in shallow grooves running up the facade. At the 7th floor the regular-sized windows have projecting brick balconettes with angled sides with incised panels each carried on a small scrolled bracket. These windows are topped by round-arches with stone diamond-shapes and keystones. The two grooves extend up through the brick roof parapet, which also has recessed panels at the other bays and a crenelated setback at the top.