The 6-story, pale red-brick building has a limestone portico with a colonnaded, 5-step-up entrance and a one-story, rusticated limestone base and an attractive wrought-iron balcony on the second floor over the entrance.

The mid-block building was designed in 1903 by Adams & Warren for Thatcher & Frances Adams. It has high ceilings, fireplaces, multi-paned windows, and permits protruding air-conditioners, but has no doorman, no garage, no sidewalk landscaping and no health club.

This is one of the nicest blocks on this major cross-street. To the west of this building is the New York Society Library at 53 East 79th Street that was designed by Trowbridge & Livington in 1917 originally for John S. and Catherine Rogers and the handsome former John H. and Catherine Iselin house at 59 East 59th Street that was designed in 1909 by Foster, Gade & Graham. To the east is the Consulate of Greece building at 67 East 79th Street that was designed in 1908 by Carrère & Hastings for George and Sarah Rives and was altered and expanded in 1962 by Pierre Zannetos.

There is good cross-town bus service on 79th street and a subway station is at Lexington Avenue and 77th Street.

Central Park is nearby as is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, many art galleries and fashionable boutiques on Madison Avenue and Lenox Hill Hospital is two blocks to the south on Park Avenue.