Mark Twain House (New York City, New York)

 landmark, apartment building, 1850s construction, Italianate style (architecture), historical building

4-story Italianate residential building completed in 1855 as a townhouse for Clinton Gilbert. It is clad in red brick with two bays of elaborate brownstone window frames and quoins at the left side. It has been altered to provide a small basement entrance between the two great parlor story windows. These great double windows at the first floor have segmental-arched heads with keystones and flanking Corinthian pilasters at the sides. They are skillfully related to the shallow modillioned cornice above, which links them together and provides the sills for the two double windows of the second floor.

A finely detailed roof cornice is shared with the adjoining building at No. 16. Mark Twain rented No. 14 for a year in 1900-01.