Guinean UN Mission

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4-story Greek-revival diplomatic mission originally completed as a townhouse around 1850. It is clad in red-orange brick above a white-painted stone ground floor that originally served as a basement level when the house had a parlor-floor entrance and stoop, long since removed.

The short ground floor has a brown metal door at both ends, in beveled surrounds; the eastern door has a pair of scrolled brackets near the top, and a thin string course tops the ground floor. There is also a central double-window with an elaborate black iron grille. The upper three floors have three bays of single-windows with light-grey stone sills and lintels. At the 2nd floor they are fronted at the bases by decorative wrought-iron railings, the eastern wider at what was likely the parlor-floor entrance. A flagpole projects from just below the middle window at the 4th floor. The facade is topped by a short, sloped shingle roof to which a wide skylight has been added.

The building now houses the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Guinea to the United Nations.