319-325 West 46th Street (New York City, New York)

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Four joined 3-story residential building completed as a unit in 1874. They all have brownstone facades and prominent stoops, but slight difference in design. The eastern two facades almost match, with identical stoops, windows, and roof cornices. The bases of the stoops have brown, fluted, octagonal newel posts topped by small spheres, and are lined by balustrade railings. The main difference is in the doorways, both of which have paneled wood double-doors under round-arched. The east facade's entry is framed by rounded, engaged Doric columns, topped by an entablature with a peaked pediment. The west facade's entry is framed by paneled, flat pilasters with brackets at the tops supporting the entablature, which has a differently-designed peaked pediment. The east facade's raised basement has a window and another sealed opening, both with full surrounds, while the west facade has two windows with decorative metal grilles and a wood-and-glass door in the side wall of the stoop, entering into a restaurant space. There is a wall-mounted lamp between the two windows, and the areaway is paved in red brick with a short set of brick steps and brass handrails leading down from the sidewalk. A vertical sign mounted on the facade at the parlor floor bears the name of the restaurant, Barbetta. The rest of the windows, two on the parlor floor and three on each of the upper floors, have full brownstone surrounds with bracketed sills and flat lintels. The roof cornices are black metal, with brackets, panels, modillions, and dentils.

The two facades further to the west are slightly shorter, and non-matching except for their stoops. Both have matching newels, with ornamented, square pedestals; the west balutraded railing on the west facade has been replaced by a simple metal railing, painted brown to match. The eastern of these two facades has two bays, while the west one has three.

The eastern one has paneled wood double-doors, framed by a portico with a broad entablature and cornice. The single-window to the right has a projecting brownstone surround with bracketed sill and flat cornice. The surrounds on the upper-floor windows are almost the same, except for the lack of a small ornamental star shape breaking the line of dentils below the cornice.

The doorway at the farthest west facade has paneled wood double-doors with glass upper panels; the pilasters framing it match those on the neighboring facade, but the entablature is entirely different, with a serpentine pattern and a peaked pediment instead of a cornice. The two parlor-floor windows to the right have matching pediments, only smaller. The upper-floor windows have full brownstone surrounds with bracketed sills and pediments matching those below. Both facades have basement areaways partially enclosed by decoratively shaped, low brownstone walls; the western one has two windows and the eastern one has a single wider window. The grey metal roof cornices of these two facades are also different. The eastern one has brackets and panels broken by roundels, while the western one is larger, with bigger brackets, dentils above narrow panels, angled bottom edges above each of the 3rd-floor window pediments below, and a crowning, central triangular pediment.

The lower floors are occupied by Barbetta restaurant.