St. Joseph's Immigrant Home (New York City, New York) | dormitory

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5-story residential building that actually consists of two joined structures, built for Catherine Rogers as a model tenement. The older 4-story facade on the east was completed in 1879. It is now connected with the wider 5-story facade on the west which was completed in 1912 and designed by Grosvenor Atterbury as a tenement. The complex is now owned by The Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, a Connecticut-based group of nuns. The building is meant to serve as a temporary and transitional home for working women and students.

The larger 5-story section is clad in dark-red brick above a raised basement of multi-colored stone with four square windows covered by black iron grilles. At the center is a short set of steps framed by red brick walls with a black iron gate. Tucked between the steps and the stone facing is a narrow iron gate leading down to a doorway for the basement level. The main entrance is deeply recessed is a shallow segmental-arch framed by decorative brickwork and a white, stone, eared lintel. The entrance has wood-and-glass double-doors with sidelights and a transom. To either side are two windows with white stone sills and ornate black iron grilles, with the outer windows being narrower.

The upper floors have a bay of small paired windows in the center, flanked by a bay on either side of double-windows set under shallow pointed-arched, and end bays of single-windows. The windows have white stone sills, and the double-windows have narrow stone Juliet balconies, angled out slightly toward the center, with black iron railings; there are similar balconies at the end bays on the top floor. A simple brick parapet marks the roof line.

The smaller 4-story building at the east is also clad in dark-red brick, with two bays of windows with brick surrounds. The 1st-floor windows have ornate wrought-iron grilles, and between them is a central entrance with a small, metal canopy, topped by a pointed-arch transom with leaded glass. There are two small basement windows at the sidewalk level, both with iron grilles. The roof line has a band of dentils and metal coping, with a peak at the center. A small, white cross is attached to the middle of the facade near the bottom of the 2nd floor.

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