353 West 48th Street

 studio - to be replaced, home improvement centre / center, commercial building

6-story commercial building completed in 1893. It is clad in red brick. The ground floor has a glass entrance door set within a field of glass infill on the east side, next to a red metal service door at the far east end. The brick above the service door is painted bright red, and black metal piers with white panel outlines frame the service door. A black iron lintel with small rosettes runs across this section of the ground floor. The west side has a plate-glass storefront with a recessed entrance of glass double-doors. There is a very low brick wall at the base and four piers at this section, these being grey with white panel outlines.

The upper floors have three bays of paired windows with rough-faced grey stone sills and lintels. Slightly projecting brick string courses connect the sills and lintels on each floor. At the top floor the piers project out, and the roofline is marked by a corbel course surmounted by stone coping. The ground floor is occupied by MH Design and Remodeling by MyHome, with Studios353 on the 2nd floor.

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