29 West 19th Street (New York City, New York)

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4-story Italianate residential building completed in 1854 as a rowhouse, later owned by William F. Havemeyer. Faced in brownstone, it was converted to commercial use in 1903 with the alteration of the basement level, the doorway and stoop as well as the addition of a projecting shopfront on the 1st floor. The entrance, while retaining its original surround and pediment supported by Ionic half-columns on pedestals, has a lower doorway cut into it with a correspondingly lower stoop. The projecting shopfront bay on the 1st story is capped by a dentiled cornice.

The 3-bay facade of the upper stories retains its details. The window openings grow progressively smaller from the 2nd floor to the 4th. Each window is surrounded by a flat stone aedicule with a corbeled stone sill. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with modillions and frieze. It was converted to condominiums sometime around 2000. The basement storefront is occupied by Union Square Dental.

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