School for Strings (New York City, New York)

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4-story commercial building originally completed around the 1870s as a 2-story carriage house. It was renovated and had two new floors added in 1987, when the School for Strings, a music school, moved in. The School for Strings was started in 1970 by Louise Behrend and was called simply at its initiation The Suzuki Program.

The facade is clad in red brick, and set back above the 2nd floor, the original roof line. The ground floor has a large round-arch in the center, with a deeply-recessed bay with a floor of red tiles; two tiled steps leads up into the bay, which has a 4-pane studio window at the rear, a metal service door in the west side wall, and the main entrance in the east side wall, with a glass door. Two smaller, slightly-recessed bays with round-arches flank the central bay, both with metal service doors. Each of the arches has red-painted brick architraves, and the space below the arches is filled by pale-green colored stucco. The 2nd floor has four bays of single-windows, with dark grey-green stone sills and lintels. There is a parapet with decorative brickwork and a stone coping topping the 2nd floor at the setback.

The newer upper floors both have four bays of wider single-windows with thin stone sills and flat lintels. A matching brick parapet to the one below caps the roof line.