This handsome building has a very warm brown brick façade with very attractive and ornate wrought-iron window grills on the first floor. It is directly across the sidestreet from the Hunter College Campus Schools on part of the former Squadron A Armory site and it is just to the north on the avenue of two very beautiful, low-rise Georgian-style buildings and therefore has considerably more light and air than most apartment buildings on the avenue.Located in the heart of the desirable Carnegie Hill neighborhood, it was erected in 1926 and converted to a cooperative in 1952. The 15-story edifice has 75 apartments. It was designed by Rosario Candela, who is widely considered to have been the country s greatest designer of luxury apartment buildings and he collaborated with many of the city’s most famous architectural firms. He collaborated with Cross & Cross on the design of 720 Park Avenue and with Arthur Loomis Harmon on the design of 740 Park Avenue, two of the boulevard’s most prestigious structures. He also worked with Cross & Cross on the design of 1 Sutton Place South and his other Park Avenue buildings include 765, 770, 778, 1021, 1105, 1172, and 1220. His other famous buildings include 834 and 960 Fifth Avenue and 19 East 72nd Street.Candela’s buildings, "it is said, were the grandest of the decade that was itself the greatest," wrote Elizabeth Hawes in her book, "New York, New York, How The Apartment House Transformed The Life Of The City (1869-1930)",...