204 West 94th Street

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6-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1902. Designed by James D. Matthews, it is clad in dark-red and white-painted brick above a white-painted, banded limestone ground floor and white-painted brick basement level. The entrance is located near the center, atop a short set of black stone steps flanked by sloped sidewalls extending out from the facade. It has glass-and-metal double-doors and a transom set in a beveled segmental-arch topped by a cartouche flanked by garlands with hanging pendants. To the west are two narrow windows and a double-window end bay. To the east a narrow window, a wider single-window, a paired regular-width single windows, and a double-window end bay. There are corresponding basement windows below for most of these, with a white metal service door at the west end. The base is capped by a white-painted stone band course.

The upper floors have double-windows in the end bays. The middle bays, from east to west, have paired single-windows, a wider single-window, very narrow paired windows, a regular-width single-window, and a wider single-window. The 2nd floor is banded with white brick, and another band course sets off the next floor. The 3rd-5th floors have wide, keyed, white brick surrounds at the window bays, with splayed lintels above the windows. A stone cornice sets off the top floor, which is also banded with white brick. A pair of wrought-iron fire escapes with decorative railings run down the facade, which is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with modillions and dentils.

The west elevation is clad in tan brick with two bays of single-windows. The building contains 30 apartment units.