The Windsor Park

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180-foot, 17-story Neo-Classical residential building completed in 1927 as a 15-story apartment-hotel. Designed by Rosario Candela, it formerly operated as the Helmsley Windsor Hotel until 2004, when numerous older hotel properties began to be converted to luxury condominiums and apartments to take advantage of a very strong market for such units. This building’s conversion to condos from the former Helmsley Windsor Hotel was completed in 2006 and highlighted by the addition of two penthouse apartments with large, vaulted ceilings designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates and the creation of double-height living rooms in many of the apartments at the corner at the Avenue of the Americas.

It is clad in reddish-brown brick above a 2-story limestone base with a grey granite water table. Both main facades are organized into seven bay. The main entrance is at the center of the north facade on 58th Street, with glass double-doors and sidelights below an upward-angled stainless-steel canopy. This bay and the one to the east are both recessed at the base, with stainless-steel beams dividing the two bays and floors. There are plate-glass windows in the other openings around the doors. To the right the ground floor has a storefront entrance with glass-and-metal door and sidelights in the next bay, followed by a plate-glass show-window, and metal double service doors in the end bay. The 2nd floor at these bays has a single-window, narrower paired windows, and a double-window, with metal air-conditioning vents below them. To the left of the recessed middle bays there is a bay of paired openings, now filled in on the ground floor. The east end bay has a small storefront show-window at the ground floor, and a modern triple-window above, with grey metal framing.

On the upper floors, this eastern end bays continues the newer triple-windows, grouped into 2-story units with the lower floor of each unit having triple-windows with thicker mullions, and the upper floor having thinner metal framing dividing the openings into 3-over-4 smaller horizontal panes. Grey-painted stone spandrels separate the floors in each grouping, and at the 3rd floor, the opening cuts into the dentiled cornice that caps the base. The brick on this bay is also a slightly different shade than the rest of the building. The rest of the 3rd floor (except for the west end bay) has elaborately carved, beveled limestone surrounds at the single-windows, edged in spiral moldings, and similarly-carved pilasters framing the wider openings, which are topped by dentiled pediments (either rounded or peaked), broken by air-conditioning vents, and resting above small cartouches flanked by foliate ornament. Two stone shields adorn the piers around the center bay. The floors above have simple stone sills and metal air-conditioning vents cut below. A projecting stone band course sets off the 14th floor, which has stone surrounds like those on the 3rd floor. The 15th-floor roof line is capped by a white metal cornice with modillions and an egg-and-dart molding.

The ground floor along the avenue is lined with metal-and-glass storefronts, and the 2nd floor simple windows (single-windows in the south end bay, followed by a double-window, three more single-windows, and narrow paired windows before the north end bay has the same modern windows in 2-story groups as around the corner on the north facade). The ornament on the rest of the upper floors also matches the north facade's.

The south elevation is clad in brown brick, with a bay of single-windows at the east edge, a bay of small bathroom windows near the middle, and another bay of single-windows toward the west end, where there is a light well. The modern 2-story penthouse added on top is situated to the south end of the roof, and clad in white concrete and standing-seam metal.

The building now contains 103 condominium units. The ground floor is occupied by a Starbucks coffee, Merci Market grocery, and Windsor Pharmacy.