78 Bank Street | apartment building

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6-story residential building completed in 1908. Designed by Charles B. Meyer, it belongs to the Electic period of design, with stone window and door trim contrasted effectively with the yellow-tan brickwork. The entrance porch, which supports the bottom.of the fire escape, is framed by a pair of classical pilasters supporting deep horizontal brackets. A horizontal band course, with dentils below, separates the ground floor from the upper stories. The console motif appears in the keystones of the windows of the first and second floors. On the upper floors, the window lintels are given importance by elongated radial blocks both at the central keystone and at the ends. In addition, the brickwork is handled in an interesting fashion, with a horizontally grooved (rusticated) effect at first and sixth floor levels, and by the use of brick corner blocks (quoins) at the intervening floor levels. The cornice has been replaced by a plain brick parapet.