358 West 48th Street | apartment building, commercial building

 apartment building, commercial building

5-story residential building completed in 1884. It is clad in red brick with brownstone trim. The north facade is organized, from east to west, as: a bay of three windows, a bay of two windows (with the main building entrance at the ground floor), a single-window bay, a bay of two windows, a single-window bay, a bay of two windows, and a final bay of single-windows. The entrance consists of a portico with smooth, rounded, brown-painted columns rising from pedestal bases; they support a beige terra-cotta parapet on the portico with a dentil course along the bottom and elaborate carved panels on all three sides. The portico acts as a bridge across the basement areaways on both sides, which are enclosed by metal fencing. The ground floor and basement level to the left of the entrance is clad in rough-faced, rusticated brownstone, with four windows at each level. A dentiled frieze runs above the ground-floor windows here, with swags above each window. To the right of the entrance are two windows with iron grilles and rough-faced stone lintels. There is a storefront at the west end, with a chamfered corner, and continued storefronts on the west facade along the avenue.

At the north facade's eastern bays, there are narrow projecting piers between the individual windows, while at the west bays there are two wider projecting piers (plus an additional segment of wide, projecting pier present only at the top floor). The 2nd floor has horizontal brick banding at the east bays and keyed brick surrounds at the west bays. The windows have brownstone sill courses and flat brownstone lintels, joined at the east bays. Below the 3rd-floor windows are spandrel panels with dogstooth patterned brickwork.

The west facade has seven bays of single-windows with joined brownstone sill and lintel courses and dogstooth patterned spandrels below the 3rd floor. There are two black metal fire escapes, with a third fire escape at the far east end of the north facade. Both main facades are crowned by black metal roof cornices with brackets and dentils. The ground floor is occupied by Hell's Kitchen Pizza.