117 East 24th Street

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151-foot, 12-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1912. Designed by Mulliken & Moeller, it is clad in beige brick above a 2-story limestone base. The firm also designed the similar building next door. The ground floor has a large expanse of metal-and-glass infill between the stone piers. At the east end is a freight entrance with metal double-doors and the main entrance with glass double-doors. The rest of the ground floor is a commercial restaurant space with double-doors at the west end. The 2nd floor, separated within the outer limestone frame by a paneled stone band, has three bays of tripartite windows with white-painted wooden framing and mullions. The stone piers between the bays are decorated with a shield-like panel with trios of bell flowers. A simple stone cornice caps the base.

The upper floors have three bays of double-windows with thin stone sills and incised brick spandrel panels between floors. The windows have black iron mullions, and there are through-wall air-conditioning units cuts below those on the 3rd-6th floors. At the 10th floor there is a simple keystone at each bay, and the piers are topped by geometric brickwork. A band course with an egg-and-dart molding sets off the 11th floor. The top two floors have elaborate moldings lining the ends of the piers, and spandrel panels highlighted by escutcheons. The facade is crowned by a modillioned stone cornice with a large cartouche at each of the four piers.

The exposed top floors of the west elevation are clad in brown brick with several bays of various windows. The ground floor is occupied by Manhattan Saddlery.