116 Waverly Place

 apartment building, 1891_construction

5-story residential building completed in 1891. Designed by Louis F. Heinecke as a French Flats apartment house known as The Cecilia, it has typical minor variations at each 3-bay story and is transitional in style, with Romanesque Revival first floor, and the simple classicism of the new Queen Anne style at the upper floors. The ground floor is clad in brownstone with two round-arched windows and a doorway on the left. Its entrance portico with brownstone stoop has colored marble pillars and pilasters supporting a stone balcony with iron railing. The upper floors are clad in red brick, with brownstone enframements around the 2nd-floor windows, and a triangular pediment above the eastern bay. The 3rd floor has flat stone lintels, with more elaborate molded lintels at the 4th floor, including a rounded pediment over the eastern bay. The top floor has a continuous brownstone lintel with keystones at each window. There is brownstone banding between the windows on each floor, and carved terra-cotta spandrel panels between the 3rd & 4th floors.

The building's ornate black modillioned and dentiled cornice is more conventional than the variegated roof lines of its neighbors. It has a paneled frieze with the name Cecelia on it. A wrought-iron railings encloses the areaway in front of the rough-stone clad basement.