| 27 West 67th Street | |
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 27 West 67th Street | |
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| Former names | Sixty-Seventh Street Studios |
| General information | |
| Type | Co-operative residential apartments |
| Town or city | Manhattan, New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°46′26″N 73°58′47″W / 40.77401°N 73.97965°W |
| Construction started | 1902 |
| Opened | 1903 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 14 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | D.M.B. Sturgis and H.B. Simonson |
27 West 67th Street is a cooperative apartment building located near Lincoln Square in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Completed late in 1902 and opened early the next year, it was designed by an artist named Henry Ward Ranger and financed by an association of his fellow artists. Ranger's innovative design provided for compact duplex apartments conjoined with large north-facing studios. The association was organized as a corporation whose financial structure followed a cooperative model. The corporation built and managed the co-op while its artist-investors held leases for the studio apartments they occupied. The project was an immediate success, leading other artist-investors to finance and build similar studio co-ops nearby. In 1995, following a thorough restoration, the architectural historian Christopher Gray wrote that the building was "one of the most important apartment houses in the history of New York City".[1] As evidenced by the cost of ownership and demand for its studio apartments, the co-op has continued to thrive in the early years of the 21st century.