209-211 West 13th Street (New York City, New York)

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6-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1909. Designed by Charles B. Meyers as a 35-unit apartment house, it is clad in salmon-colored brick with stone trim, nine bays across. The ground floor is rusticated in brick with splayed window lintels displaying vertically placed consoles used as keystones. The impost blocks of the lintels are extended into a horizontal stone band course which visually connects them. The second floor windows repeat the console keystones in the lintels, while those above are multiple keystones. The building is crowned by a very large white metal roof cornice, carried on brackets, with dentils and panels in the fascia below. Two black metal fire escapes run down the facade.