64 MacDougal Street (New York City, New York)

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6-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1904 as a tenement. Designed by Bernstein & Bernstein, the front facade is clad in red brick, six bays wide. There is a wide stone band across the top of the ground floor. The windows of the 2nd floor have triangular pediments over the outer bays, and flat splayed lintels above the center two windows. A thinner, carved band course separates the 3rd floor. The outer bays of the 3rd & 4th floors have stone quoins framing the windows, with carved panels in the spandrels between floors, and rounded pediments on top of the 4th floors windows. The inner two bays have flat splayed lintels like the 2nd floor, as do the center windows of the 5th floor. The outer 5th floor windows have stone sills and flat-topped cornices. A stone cornice sets off the top floor, which has thin stone piers separating six square-headed windows topped by flat stone lintels. Each of the piers rises to form a bracket support the roof cornice, which also has modillions and dentils, and carved swag in the fascia board. A black iron fire escape runs down the center of this facade.

There was originally another building on the northern side of 64 MacDougal. When Houston Street was widened in the 1930s, that structure was demolished, leaving a blank portion of the north wall of 64 MacDougal facing the street. The rear portion of the north side is slightly set back, and also faced in blank stucco, but with numerous simple window openings. The rear facade is clad in beige brick, with segmental-arched windows, and another metal fire escape.