70 Perry Street (New York City, New York)

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4-story French Second Empire-style residential building completed in 1867. Designed by Walter Jones, who also owned and built the mansion. It is clad in brownstone, with a mansard roof at the top floor. Its windows at the right are paired throughout, balanced asymmetrically against the tier of single windows over the doorway.

At the parlor floor, up a relatively short stoop, the rustication of the basement is continued in two approximately equal sections, surrounding the round-arched doorway and the pair of arched windows, which are set above recessed panels. This same feeling is continued upward by means of quoins at the corners carried up as far as the modillioned roof cornice. In contrast to the parlor floor windows, which have round arches with simple molded enframements, the segmental-arched windows of the second floor have rectangular molded enframements, and the square-headed windows of the third floor have enframements with "ears" (crossetted) at their upper corners. In the mansard, both the single and paired windows are crowned by segmental-arched roofs. The distinctive character of each of the different levels is emphasized by horizontal band courses, acting also as windowsills.