About The Level Club, 253 West 73rd Street
This 18-story building just to the west of the famous Ansonia that fronts on Broadway was originally the Level Club of the Masonic order and was built in 1927 to designs by Clinton & Russell. The club had been founded in Harlem in 1919.
The neo-Romanesque structure was typical of the Masonic "temples" in its decoration, which included secret symbols. This 160-unit building also has bronze filigreed globes atop its columns.
The sponsors of this doorman building's conversion in 1984 to a condominium were Harold Thurman, Patrick Consalvas and Jacques de Roquancourt. Wechsler, Grasso & Menziuso was the architectural firm for the conversion.