This very handsome, 12-story apartment building was erected in 1927 and has 73 cooperative apartments.

It has a canopied entrance at 25 East 9th Street and it occupies the full west blockfront on University Place to 10th Street.

The middle of its fa??ade on University Place has bright and attractive terracotta decoration and its storefronts have low arched, broad windows.

The building s facade has many curved Juliet balconies with French doors.

There is cross-town bus service going westward on Ninth Street and eastward on Eighth Street and there is an uptown bus stop directly across University Place.

There is a supermarket nearby as well as numerous restaurants on University Place.

Washington Square Park is two blocks south and Union Square Park is four blocks north.

The building is known as the Beauclaire, the title of a 1925 story by Booth Tarkington.

In 2007, Jay McInerney, an author, and his wife, Annie Hearst, purchased a two-bedroom penthouse in the building that formerly belonged to the daughter of a former Colombian ambassador to the United States who was married to a great-great-grandson of Teddy Roosevelt. Other residents over the years have included Susan Sarandon and Richard Gere.

The similar, thin apartment building of about the same vintage is across Tenth Street but it was a much shorter frontage on University Place and was close to Bradley's, the finest jazz club in Greenwich Village for many years.