Candela was key to the transformation of portions of Fifth, Park, and Lexington Avenues from boulevards lined with mansions in 1920 to thoroughfares of towering apartment buildings by 1930. Rosario Candela immigrated from Sicily and later graduated from the Architecture School of Columbia University in 1915. Apple Bank, a tailor shop, and a coffee/ juice/ sandwich shop occupied the commercial spaces facing Lexington Avenue in recent years. Commercial spaces take up only about 4,000 of the building's roughly 77,000 square feet. The apartment building's footprint is 70 by 100 fee with the longer side facing east (Lexington Avenue). The building has been touted as one of Lexington Avenue's most distinguished apartment buildings, with the multiple gargoyles and doorman making up for the lack of parking or balconies. The apartment house is unusual in the large size of each apartment the building only contains 26 units and is now organized as a co-op.
80th Street has retained its traditional usage with commercial spaces on the ground floor along Lexington Avenue and residential apartments in the rest of the building. The rooftop features an enclosed water tank. The brickwork of the exterior of the third and fourth floors is patterned in a cross-hatch style. A carved limestone griffin at the apartment building's corner below the third story keeps watch over the intersection, above a brass landmark plaque near the sidewalk on the E.
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