The Ansonia

Manhattan, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Ansonia is a 17-story Beaux-Arts apartment building located at 2109 Broadway between 73rd and 74th Streets on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Designed by French architect Paul Émile Duboy and built between 1899 and 1903 by William Earle Dodge Stokes—who named it after his grandfather, the industrialist Anson Greene Phelps—the structure originally opened as a residential hotel in April 1904. The building's distinctive facade combines limestone, granite, white brick, and terracotta, featuring corner turrets, light courts, and a three-story mansard roof. Originally containing as many as 2,500 rooms arranged as multi-room suites, the hotel was equipped with its own power and air-filtration plants, pneumatic tube systems, and cooling pipes. Its public rooms, including the lobby and basement shopping arcade, were decorated in Louis XIV style. The building now contains 425 apartments and is designated a New York City landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.