Manchester House

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160-foot, 17-story Neo-Romanesque (with Gothic elements) cooperative-apartment building completed in 1928. Designed by Emery Roth, it is clad in tan brick, warm-colored stone, and terra-cotta. The ground floor is rusticated stone, and has a central main entrance set under a pointed-arch of stone with bricks interspersed, lined by an elegant molding at the inner edge. The black wrought-iron-and-glass double-doors are topped by metal numbers 145, which are flanked by carved, abstract Romanesque ornament. Above this, within the arch, is a panel reading "MANCHESTER HOUSE" in a Gothic font, and a terra-cotta coat-of-arms featuring a pair of rearing horses flanking a shield and knight's helmet. The either side of the main entrance is a narrow window whose wrought-iron grille has spirals at the edges, and a secondary entry with a paneled black wooden door. These openings are have notched upper corners, as do the two wider windows at the east end, and the one wider window to the west, which all have notched corners and iron grilles as well. At the west end there is a service entrance set down a couple steps, with a black metal door; it is topped by a bas-relief scultpure of a 3-masted ship. The 2nd floor has paired windows in the end bays, and a wide window on either side of the arch over the entrance. The 3rd floors has four single-windows in the middle, and paired windows at the ends. All of the 2nd- & 3rd-floor windows have flat stone sills and lintels, and there are randomly-placed stone of various sizes dotting the brick at these two floors. Stone quoins line the edges, becoming gradually more spaced apart at the 3rd floor, and fading away by the 6th floor. Between the windows on the 3rd floor are a series of terra-cotta shields of various designs.

The 4th floor is transitional, with tripartite windows at the end bays instead of paired windows. A colonnade of thin terra-cotta round-arches marches across this floor, with each slender colonnette framing one of the windows, with the arches springing from the small Corinthian capitals. The colonnettes are supported by a projecting sill course with small brackets. A dentiled sill course sets off the 5th floor, with the end bays returning to paired windows on the upper floors. At the 6th floor there is a sill course at the middle four bays, topping an arcade of pointed-arches with small roundels in between.

At the middle floors, the end bays have projecting brick shapes of various designs between each floor, with a few more at the center of the facade. Tan-yellow terra-cotta sill courses above pointed-arches underline the end bays at the 14th floor, with engaged, rounded pillars separating the paired windows at the 14th-15th floors, and similarly colored spandrels panels in between carved with Romanesque ornament. Round-arches of the same terra-cotta top the 15th-floor windows. At the main roof line at the 16th floor there is a dentiled string course, stepped up at the end bays where there are corbelled arches below.

A 17th-floor penthouse is set back from the main roof line, faced in white stone, with terrace space around it. The building was converted to a co-op in 1979, with 64 apartments.