Victoria House

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168-foot, 18-story mid-century modern cooperative-apartment building completed in 1964. Designed by Leo Stillman, it is clad in red brick. There are storefront window at the ground floor along the avenue, with the northwest corner clad in white metal and stone. Along 27th Street the ground floor has several red metal vents east of the storefront windows, and then the main entrance, with glass sliding doors framed by white marble slabs. The marble continues another bay to the east where it encloses a recessed decorative planter at the ground floor. A short canopy of brown metal covers the marble area, with a smaller canopy below it extending out from the entrance to cover the sidewalk. The rest of the north facade to the east is set back a little, with the window organization on the ground floor matching those on the upper floors.

The north facade's upper floors have, from west to east, two double-windows, a single-window, two triple-windows, another double-window, another triple-windows, two single-windows, and a final triple-window before the set-back east section, which continues with a triple-window, a single-window, a double-window, another triple-window, a double-window, a single-window, two triple-windows, a single-window, a double-window, a triple-window, and a far east end section that is a bit more recessed with a triple-window and a single-window. All the windows have black metal framing and thin concrete sills. At the west section, many of the bays are connected by piers of brown brick contrasting with the red brick in the spandrels and everywhere else on the facade. At these connected bays there are also concrete lintel courses that match the sills.

At the recessed east section of the north facade, there are small setbacks on both ends above the 10th floor, with angled corners, and a lower roof line at the 12th floor (11th floor at the far east end). At the west section, there are setbacks above the 14th floor at both ends (a wider setback on the west), and another above the 16th floor, with angled corners at the middle section above up to the main roof line. Rising from the east end of the main roof is a water tower enclosure in red brick.

The east facade's upper floors have a double-window and triple-window bay at the south end, followed by wide bands composed of two triple-windows and two single-windows in the middle that are joined by brown-brick piers. The north end is more sparse, with only a bay of smaller single-windows and a regular-sized single-window bay. Setbacks at both ends occur above the 14th and 16th floors, and to the mechanical penthouse on the roof. There are metal railings at each setback area.

The front end of the south facade at the west, visible from the street, has a single-window bay and another bay of smaller windows. The building was converted to a cooperative in 1984, with 280 apartments. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Sugared + Bronzed tanning salon, NY Kids Club, and Handcraft Kitchen & Cocktails.