Venezuelan Consulate

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6-story consulate/office building originally completed in 1905 as a 5-story mansion. Designed by Ogden Codman Jr., for E. Rollins Morse, a stockbroker, it is clad in limestone. The ground floor has been modernized, with bronze framing three plate-glass windows and a glass double-door, and a metal door at the left side.

The upper floors have three bays of windows, growing progressively shorter from the 2nd to the 4th floors. The tall 2nd floor windows are set in shallow round-arched niches, with a projecting flagpole mounted at the center one. A narrow iron balcony with decorative ailing fronts the 2nd floor. The 3rd & 4th floors have simple stone sills, and there are panels between the floors at each bay with carved swags. A modest, black metal modillioned cornice tops the 4th floor.

Above the cornice, the 5th floor has three peaked copper dormers, and a set-back 6th floor, added when the mansion was converted to commercial use in the 1930s, is not visible from the street. In the mid-1900s the building housed the House of Harry Winston jewelry store. It is now occupied by The Office of the Consulate-General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venazuela in New York.

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