545 West 45th Street

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125-foot, 11-story office building completed in 1925. Designed by Lockwood, Greene & Company, it is clad in brown brick with pale-green metal spandrels above a 2-story limestone base. The main entrance is at the east end, with a glass door, sidelights, and a transom set in a beveled surround framed by a rope molding, with a wider drip molding on top. Covering the top of the entry, above the door, is a rounded metal canopy decorated with rosettes. To the left are three bays of large triple-windows with metal screens, and at the west end the ground floor has a wide and a narrow loading dock with roll-down metal gates, and a metal service door. The 2nd floor has six bays of triple-windows; those in the end bays are narrower and separated by stone panels, while the others have metal mullions. Below each bay (except for the east end bay) are three outlined stone panels. The base is capped by a simple band course.

The upper floors have six bays, also with narrow trios of windows at the ends, and triple-windows with iron mullions in the middle bays. The pale-green metal spandrels between floors have quatrefoils in the end bays, and rows of round-arches in the middle bays. The facade sets back above the 7th floor, with another setback in the middle above the 9th floor, forming a pair of pavilions at the ends. These both have two bays of single-windows separated by a vertical groove, and have pale-green spandrels with either arches or quatrefoils (depending on floor). There is also pale-green metal edging the middle groove, capped by a small metal gable.

The west facade is plain, beige, parged brick with a lone window near the middle of the 6th floor.