The Crystal House | apartment building

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177-foot, 19-story mid-century-modern cooperative-apartment building completed in 1972. Designed by Clarence Lilien & Associates, it is set back a little from the north and west sides and clad in brown brick, with some horizontal banding in darker brick and vertical piers of pale-yellow brick. The main entrance at the northwest corner has glass doors recessed in a beige marble surround, up three short steps from the east and a short ramp from the north. It is covered by a large, black steel canopy, and there is some landscaping beds surrounding it, enclosed by very low brick walls topped by decorative iron railings.

The upper floors of the west facade have nine bays of double-windows. Except for the northern two, they are divided by pale-yellow brick piers, with double-piers grouping six of them into pairs. To the south of the main entrance, the ground floor has two such double-windows, followed by metal louvers near the top of the ground floor, and a service entrance with a black metal door at the south end.

The north facade has six double-window bays on the east end, with the middle four grouped into pairs, and then a bay of small single-windows, and two larger single-windows at the west end. The two bays next to the entrance have plate-glass windows at the ground floor, followed by a metal service door, and parking garage entrance and exit at the east bays.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1980, with 164 apartments.