7 West 20th Street

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1851 as a 4-story rowhouse. In 1908, a storefront was installed at the basement level, and housed a restaurant. In 1919, the double-height addition was constructed, which required removing the stoop, extending the front out to the building line, and relocating the entrance. A new storefront was installed in 1957. The building was returned to residential sometime in the late 1900s.

Above the newer bottom floors, the top three floors are three bays wide and faced in grey rough stucco. The windows have stone sills; silhouettes of flush stone lintels are visible beneath the stucco. The original bracketed roof cornice caps the facade. The 2nd floor has a 5-paned show window; this is surmounted by a parapet wall with three openings. The ground floor is occupied by Baodega restaurant, with Pink Monkey Events on the 2nd floor.