354 Central Park West

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5-story Romanesque/Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1893. Designed by Gilbert A. Schellenger, along with the townhouse to the north, it is clad in grey-brown Roman brick and stone above a white-painted stone base. It was originally part of a row of five houses.

The ground floor is lightly banded, and has two single-windows with iron grilles and a white wooden door on the right, replacing an original stoop. The 2nd floor has three round-arched windows, the north one wider where the original parlor-floor entrance was. Each window has a drip molding with foliate corbels; the white-painted stone extends up to here.

The brick upper floors are dominated by a 3-sided, angled oriel of light-grey terra-cotta placed in the left portion of the facade. The oriel rises two stories from a full-width foliate corbel, terminating in a parapet with foliate panels at the base of a wide terra-cotta framed window at the top floor. Single terra-cotta framed window openings are placed to the right of the oriel and the 5th-floor window. A deep, white metal, modillioned cornice above a rosette-paneled frieze terminates the facade.

The building was divided into apartments in 1968.