Holy Cross Rectory

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4-story church rectory completed in 1886. The facade is three bays wide, clad in red brick above a raised brownstone basement. A brownstone stoop with wrought-iron handrails and front areaway are set behind wrough-iron fencing; there are two round-arched basement windows with iron grilles. The wooden entry door is set within a slightly-projecting, round-arched brownstone portico with a triangular top that has a small cross. To the left are two tall round-arched windows with brownstone hoods. The 2nd floor, above a brick corbel course, has three shorter round-arched windows with bracketed brownstone sills and hoods. The top two floors have similar, slightly shorter windows, and thin brownstone string courses cross the facade at the base level of each window. The rectory is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets, panels, and modillions. The west elevation is faced in plain light-brown brick with a metal fire escape.