112 Waverly Place

 apartment building, Federal style (architecture), 1820s construction

4-story residential building originally completed in 1826 as a 3-story Federal-style rowhouse. Around 1900, while still retaining its Federal appearance, No. 112 was the studio of Everett Shinn, one of the Ashcan school of painters, and here in its rear court he built the Little Theatre and organized the Waverly Place Players. Today, as redesigned, it has a severe but asymmetrical brick facade, with large and wide casement window groups at the right, and small individual windows to the left, on both the 2nd & 3rd floors. The top floor was added and has a wide casement window on center beneath a skylight. All three of the upper floors have iron balconettes at the bases of the larger window groups. The ground floor has a doorway at the left, with a brick-lined round-arch and a small stoop.