363 Seventh Avenue (New York City, New York)

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260-foot, 22-story Neo-Gothic office building completed in 1931 for Louis Kleban & Sons. Designed by Emery Roth, its two main façades are clad in buff-colored brick, three bays wide on the west side, and spanning five bays on the south elevation. The tall ground floor is faced in white-painted stone. The main entrance is at the north end of the 7th Avenue facade, recessed between flutes piers with foliate carvings above. The brass-framed door is set below a suspended brass canopy. The rest of this facade has a large storefront with tall windows. On the south elevation, the ground floor has storefront windows in the 1st, 3rd & 4th bays from the west; the 2nd bay from the west is plain stone, but has the metal louvers that also top the other bays. The eastern bay is narrower, and has a service entrance; it is framed by the same fluted pillars and foliate carvings as the main entrance, and has a small inset window above it with a decorative metal grille.

The 2nd-4th floors have tripartite windows divided by black iron mullions in each bay, except for the eastern bay on the south facade, which has three narrow slit windows on every floor above the ground floor. The center bays on the 2nd-4th floors have vertical grooves in the brickwork of the spandrels. The upper floors have paired windows in each bay, with flat stone sills and lintels. The two southern bays on the west elevation and the three western bays on the south elevation have the first set back above the 18th floor; the northern bay on the west facade, and the 2nd-to-eastern bay on the south facade extend another two floors before another setback above the 20th floor. The eastern bay extends the full regular-floor height of 22 stories; there are also two level of mechanical penthouses set further back in a tall tower-like enclosure. Each of the setbacks is topped by projecting, finial-like extensions at the piers.

The northern elevation is clad in tan brick with a bay of double-windows near the front and another bay of single-windows at the back. The upper part of the eastern elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick with projecting chimneys.

The ground floor is occupied by Fresh & Co. restaurant.

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