Trump Parc Condominiums (New York City, New York)

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456-foot, 38-story Art-Deco residential building completed in 1930. Designed by Lawrence Emmons, Lloyd Morgan and Murgatroyd & Ogden, it opened as the Barbizon Plaza Hotel. It was converted into a condominium building in 1986 by Donald Trump. The limestone building wraps around a smaller building on the northeast corner of the block that is now known as Trump Parc East at 100 Central Park South, a building that has its own entrance. After a fairly controversial conversion of the adjoining building, Mr. Trump unified the retail frontage of both along the Avenue of the Americas.

The entrance to Trump Parc (through the narrow wing that extends to Central Park South) is full of black polished granite and brass. The entry is recessed in three bays (the western one quite narrow) up a few low granite steps, and have glass double-doors in the center bay, with windows in the flanking bays. Above is a gleaming brass and black metal canopy with the Trump Parc logo on all three sides. To the west is a storefront of two bays (with glass double-doors in the end bay) occupied by a Trump International Realty office. The brass and black banding of the canopy extends as a band course above the west end of the ground floor, which projects out just slightly from the upper floors.

The 2nd floor has a glass railing fronting its shallow balcony, and is asymmetrical, with a tripartite window at the west bay, a wider tripartite window in the middle bay, and an even wider bay at the east, organized into a tripartite window with another narrow pane separating a wider pane at the west; each of these is divided into upper and lower halves. The limestone piers at the 2nd floor are banded, to harmonize with the corner building (the top of the corner building's 3rd floor lines up with this building's 2nd floor due to both a slight slope of the street downward to the east, and a taller ground floor and 2nd floor existing at this building).

The upper floors on the north facade have three bays, with tripartite windows in the end bays, and a band of five windows in the center. At the 19th-21st floors the end bays transition to single-windows, and the 21st floor has angled corners on both sides of the end bays. The 19th-floor windows have circular, cup-like, telescoping balconies, and the 21st-floor windows are arched, topped by keystones that interrupt the carved band course around the top of this level. The window bands at the middle end at the 20th floor, where there is a setback with three round, cup-shaped balconies. The 21st floor has two tripartite windows in the middle, and the 22nd-24th have a single bay of tripartite windows in the middle, and recessed end bays with tripartite windows. Another carved band course marks a major setback above the 24th floor, with florid abstract shapes, flowers, and geometric patterns. Behind this, a narrow connecting sections leads into the main bulk of the tower. It is two bays wide, with double-windows, setting back again above the 28th & 29th floors, from which the north face of the upper tower rises vertically to the roof. There are two bays of double-windows on the north facade to the east of the northward-projecting section; above the final setback the four bays consist of single-windows in the middle and double-windows at the ends, up to the 33rd floor, where the crown elements begin.

The north-facing wall of the east wing, overlooking the shorter Trump Parc East building, has a bay of tripartite windows at the east end, followed by a bay of paired windows, and a bay of single-windows at the inner edge, where it meets a recessed light well, which has a bay of double-windows and single-windows. The east end narrows at the 21st-22nd floors, with a tripartite window flanked by wide single-windows, and then sets back to tripartite windows flanked by narrow single-windows at the 23rd-25th floors, where the final setback is. At the 26th-29th floors, this north-facing wall is the same as the rear wall of the light well, with a bay of tripartite window and a single-window at the east. The east wing ends in a lower roof here, with angled corners at the 29th floor.

The ground floor of the east facade along the avenue is shared by the smaller building Trump Parc East. It is clad in black polished granite and lined with bronze-and-glass storefronts. The granite band across the top has a row of Trump Parc logos. The 2nd is asymmetrical, with seven bays of windows. The south end bay has four windows (grouped as two double-windows), the next three bays are tripartite, then a double-window, a doubl-window grouped with a single-window, and the north bay has a band of five windows consisting of double-windows joined by a central single-window. The center bay is set off by a pair of banded piers running from the 2nd-3rd floors, and there are banded piers at the ends too. The 3rd floor has nine symmetrical, with paired windows in the center bay, followed outward by two single-windows, another bay of paired windows, and double-window end bays. All of the 3rd-floor windows have upper transom panes. The 3rd floor is capped by a tall band course with vertical ribs that curve inward at their centers.

On the upper floors of the east facade the nine bays have tripartite windows in the center, followed outward by wide single-windows, narrower single-windows, paired windows, and tripartite windows in the end bays. Both of the paired windows in those bays are set in shallow grooves, and the windows all have beige metal framing. The end bays set back above the 20th floor, where the paired windows have telescoping, semi-circle balconies, the narrow single-windows are round-arched, and the rest of the windows in the middle (where the tripartite bays changes to two separate, wide single-windows) are also round-arched, but topped with foliate carvings and half-shell rounded balconies; these middle bays also set back above the 20th floor. The paired window bays extend up to the 22nd floor, where they have in round-arched windows and a carved band course, and set back to a pair of 3-story pavilions that frame the central part of the east wing. These pavilions have a bay of tripartite windows, and angled corners at the top (25th) floor. The middle section has a bay of tripartite windows flanked by wide single-windows at the 21st floor, and four round-arched windows at the 22nd floor, where it has another shallow setback. The upper, central part of the east wing has paired, large single-windows flanked by end bays with large single-windows at the 23rd-25th floors, changing to double-windows in the end bays at the 26th-28th floors. The top floor of the east wing, the 29th, has paired round-arched windows in the middle, flanked by wide single-windows, and has angled corners. A large roof terrace extends back to the main tower.

The south facade on 58th Street continues the black granite cladding and storefronts a little more than halfway across, with a dramatic step-up midway due to the slope of the street. There is a commercial rear entrance at 105 West 58th Street directly west of the storefronts, followed by a small office storefront for the underground parking garage, and two entry/exit bays for the garage at the west end. The four western bays have tripartite windows on the 2nd floor, and double-windows with upper transom panes on the 3rd, as do the three eastern bay, except for a double-window replacing the 2nd-floor tripartite window in the 3rd bay, right before the step up of the band running along the ground floor. At the actual point of the step-up there is a narrow single-window on both the 2nd & 3rd floor. The middle section, above the higher, western section of storefronts, has recessed window bays between fluted, rounded 2-story columns; the center of these three bays has double-windows, and the other two have single-windows. The same tall band course with vertical ribs caps the 3rd floor on this facade as well, except above the columns where the ribs are replaced by a trio of stone medallions - the center one has a lyre encircled by acanthus leaves, and the outer two have kneeling figures facing inward, a male on right with an artist's palette, and a female on the left, holding an open book. Above this section, there is also a central light well, with its rear wall lining up with the main south-facing wall of the tower.

The two wings created by the light well each have three bays, an outer bay of double-windows, middle bay of paired windows, and an inner bay of single-windows, which are round-arched at the 20th floor. There is also a small, extra bay at the west end, with double-windows, ending at the 8th floor. The end bays set back above the 20th floor, creating the beginnings of the northern pair of pavilions that are very similar to those on the east facade. At their 21st-22nd floors the east one has a bay of tripartite windows, while the west one has paired windows flanked by single-windows; both have angled corners at the 22nd floor, where they set back. The east pavilion has tripartite windows flanked by narrow single-windows at the 23rd-25th floors, and the west pavilion is the same except with double-windows in the middle. Both again have angles corners at the 25th floor, where the pavilions end, and the main south-facing facade rises up to the crown. The inward-facing side wall of the east pavilion has two bays of single-window, and the west pavilion has three. The rear wall of the light well has paired windows in the center, flanked by single-windows. At the 20th floor the paired windows change to wide tripartite windows with the end panes recessed, up to the 28th floor where there are two large round-arched windows; the flanking windows are also round-arched on this floor, and all four are topped by carved ornament and keystones. (The flanking-bay windows are also round-arched at the 21st floor). Another bay of single-windows joins the eastern one above the first setback of the east pavilion, with a third single-window and a double-window end bay added where the pavilion ends. Another single-window also joins on the left, above the first setback of the west pavilion, expanding to paired windows as well as an end bay of double-windows above the pavilion. As described earlier, the east wing ends at the 28th floor.

To the left of the west pavilion there is an end bay of double-windows. Continuing above the level of the east-wing roof, there are double-windows in the end bays of the upper tower's south facade, with two bays of single-windows in the middle. The crown begins at the 33rd floor, with eight projecting pillars along the wider east and west sides, and five along the north and south (including at the corners). These stone pillars extends from the 33rd-36th floors, rising from small, half-circle bases. The gold-colored side top pillars of the building that line the top two floors, sloping inward at the base, have been extended upwards to create an uneven, but very impressive, row of gilded teeth around the top and the entire top. The exposed, golden top pillars propel the building skyward; its upper pillars, six to both long sides, rise from the narrow crown to their peaks, arcing taller in the middle.

The west elevation is mostly plain at the lower floors. There are two bays of single-windows on the west-facing wall of the west pavilion, at the south end of the building. The main western elevation has a southern end bay of tripartite windows beginning at the 24th floor, changing the single-windows at the crown. The north end has a couple bays of single-windows at the 24th-28th floors, where it sets back to the upper tower. The north end bay of the upper tower has tripartite windows at the 29th-31st floors, changing to single-windows at the crown.

The building has 340 condominium units. The ground floor is occupied by VIP Cleaners, Galaxy Jewelry Antique & Vintage, and CPS 59 Nail Spa.