1 Rutherford Place (New York City, New York)

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5-story cooperative-apartment building originally completed in 1856 as a townhouse. Erected by developers Thomas Norton & David Morehead, it was radically altered with a new facade in 1941. Extended out farther to the east, the new facade is clad in reddish-brown brick above a ground floor of tan smooth-stucco, which continues along 17th Street on the north side of the building. Here the upper floors are are clad in red-painted brick.

The main entrance is west of center on 17th Street, with black wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom in a white stone surround with fluted pilasters. A white-painted band runs across the top of the ground floor, with a black band at the bottom. East of the main entrance is a large, square steel casement window, a narrow single-window and a larger single-window, and a service entrance at the end with a black wooden door. To the west is a single-window, another secondary entrance, and another large, square casement window. The stucco ground floor continues as a 1-story wall past the west end, with a gate enclosing a rear courtyard. The upper floors on the north facade have two large, square casement windows in the middle (except at the top two floors, where one of them is split into a wide and narrow single-window). There are also large, square end bays, with a single-window in between the western one, and two single-windows (one larger, one narrow) in between the eastern end bay and the middle bays. At the far east end is a short return of the darker brick from the east facade, and there are white horizontal bands above and below the top floor (with the brick parapet above painted a darker red). The western two bays set back above the 3rd floor, with a semi-open terrace at the 4th floor framed in brick, with two large square openings on the north side and two more on the west. Below, the lower floors of the west facade have very wide casement windows, and the ground floor has a window and door.

The east facade has a wide casement window on each floor, with a low brick wall in front. The windows have lintels of brown brick, and part of the lower floors is covered by climbing ivy. The building is now a co-op, with 10 apartments.