67th Street Studios

 Art Nouveau / Jugendstil (architecture), apartment building, 1903_construction

155-foot, 14-story Art-Nouveau / Arts & Craft-style cooperative-apartment building completed in 1903. Designed by Simonson & Sturgis, it is notable for the sophistication of its molded brick window and for the Gothic detail and multi-paned windows of its street front. This is the earliest of the several studio buildings along West 67th Street. It is clad in variegated red brick with grey accents bricks, and bright orange-red brick sections, as well as terra-cotta. The main entrance is in the 3rd bay from the east of the facade's six bays, with an arched limestone surround. The building name (Sixty Seventh Street Studios) is emblazoned in wavy limestone ribbons beneath rough-faced limestone infill at the top of the arch, with a spectacular, though small, light fixture suspended by an elaborate cast-iron element. The entry has glass-and-wood double-doors, and the base of the arch has florid carved details, with carved leaves lining the edges. The projecting brick pilasters to either side sit on stone bases, and transition to stone at the lower part of the 2nd floor, which they overlap, with a pair of crests bearing the number 27, for the address. There are modillioned stone caps on the pilasters, with a large gable in between, above the doorway arch. A dry moat in front of the basement level is enclosed by iron fencing extending to either side of the entrance, with stone and brick posts and end walls.

The 1st-floor windows rest on a stone sill course. THe middle bay next to the entrance has a segmental-arched double-window; an arched brick lintel interrupts a flat limestone lintel above the window. The next outer bay on either side of the middle two bays have narrow double-windows, and the end bays have wide double-windows, all with flat stone lintels, and green wooden framing. All of the bays are slightly recessed in 2-story groups, with bright orange brick (some rounded) lining the edges. Most of the center bays, including the pier in between are also clad in the brighter brick.

The 2nd floor has projecting, hooded brick lintels with segmental-arched bottoms at the outer bays. The two middle bays change to paired windows, with a bright-orange brick, projecting pilasters in between. This pattern of segmental-ached double windows on one floor, followed by flat paired windows on the floor above is repeated at the 3rd-4th, 5th-6th, & 7th-8th floors. A modillioned stone band course caps the 2nd floor, and serves as a sill course for the windows of the 3rd floor. The upper floors differ from the 2nd floor in not having projecting, hooded lintels above the windows.

At the 9th-10th floors the window bays are all the same, except for being wider at the end bays and narrower in the center. They have double-windows, still in recessed bays, but all with flat stone lintels at both floors. A modillioned band course sets off the top four floors, which are clad in lighter-colored brick. These also are divided into 2-story recessed bays for the windows, segmental-arched at the 12th & 14th floors. A shallow gable tops both ends, and the center section of the roof line has a small, modillioned metal cornice. Above rises a low-sloped copper roof, with seven small peaked dormers, three in the center and two at each end. Three more dormers on each end poke up from the north side of the roof, with a water tower in the middle.

The building is T-shaped, with a middle wing extending to the north into the middle of the block. Its north facade has two bays of segmental-arched tripartite windows. On either side, the north-facing walls of the main bulk of the building feature the double-height studio windows that provided ample light to the artists originally occupying the apartments. The building was converted to a co-op in 1973, with 32 apartments.