The New York Yacht Club is located in Manhattan at 37 West 44th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It was built by architects Whitney Warren and Charles Wetmore in 1899-1900. Both the interior and the exterior of the building, as seen in photographs, feature many aspects of the Baroque revival style.
The Yacht Club does not have the bilaterally symmetrical arrangement of the fatade that characterizes many Baroque buildings. Instead, the limestone and marble fatade features three identical bays located to the left of the entrance, which occupies a bay of its own. The entrance bay is distinguished in several ways from the other three. The entry is at street-level, and the doorway is cut out of the limestone in fairly simple fashion. In this it echoes the windows, one for each bay, that make up the rest of the basement story. The windows at this level are much broader than the door, but the entry bay is actually wider than the others. The basement level features a graduated plinth-and-base-like arrangement about half-way up and is topped by a broader base on which the next story seems to rest. In the entry bay, however, broad, plain limestone pilasters rise from the base provided by the basement level and the entire bay projects farther out into the street. Above the plain door a heavy medallion, surrounded by heavy decorative carving, fronts the projection that juts out at the bottom of the entry window. This arrangement reflects that of the other bays, with the heavy bay windows at the bottom of the tall window arches. But in the entry bay the window rises only two-thirds of the way up the story. It is surmounted by a very slight arch which, in turn, is surmounted by decorative material and, above that, a wide rectangular window closes off the entry bay at this level. The rectangular window is flanked by carved reliefs on each of the pilasters.
The entry bay continues to be distinguished from the others up t...