Calvary Christian Church

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3-story church originally completed in 1869 as a townhouse. The Calvary Christian Church combined the townhouses at 405-409 West 47th to create the joined church building, with new facades of cream-colored smooth stucco above salmon-colored raised basements. The main facade, at the west, is set back from the sidewalk, with two stuccoed stoops at the sides that lead up to a central landing fronted by a stuccoed wall with a row of pointed-arches. Between the stoops are two low sections of wall with pointed-arches, topped by white iron fencing and a break in the middle with a gate allowing access to the central basement door. Behind the landing, the main entrance has recessed, paneled, wood double-doors set within a pointed-arch. The top of the arch is filled by stucco painted in the colors of a sunset, with lettering reading \"Iglesia Cristiana El Calvario\", and a painted cross. There is a bulltein plaque mounted to the right of the doorway. The 2nd & 3rd floors each have a pair of windows with brown-painted pointed-arched surrounds, and there is a large cross in the middle of the 2nd floor. A simple coping caps the roof line.

The two adjoining former townhouses to the east are faced in the same stucco, and now present a unified extension of the set-back main facade to the west. White iron fencing fronts the lower level, with two windows and a service entrance at each side. The upper floors have six bays of fairly short windows, and a matching coping caps the roof line.