Ava Flats (New York City, New York)

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5-story residential building completed in 1888 for William Hamilton Russell as an apartment building. Designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, it shares a cornice with No. 7 next door, and repeats the East Indian bracket forms. The facade is two bays across, with double-windows (the top floor has paired round-arched windows). The fire escape displays attractive ironwork at each horizontal balcony. At the ground floor, a wide low stoop leads to the entrance, which is set under a dentiled cornice, along with a large double-windows at the right, framed in cast-iron, and a square ornamental iron plaque between the two.

There may have been a clause in the sale negotiation that required Russell to use carved elements from De Forest's factory in India which manufactured carved woodwork.

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