336-340 West 12th Street

 townhouses, 1860s construction, Italianate style (architecture)

A trio of 3-story Italianate residential buildings completed together in 1860 as townhouses for Samuel B. Ferdon, Jacob T. Blauvelt, and Jacob J. Bogert. The have been removed to provide a basement entrance at No. 336 and a street-level entrance at No. 340. French doors and a small balcony at No. 340 mark the place of the original ! entrance. All three houses once had passageways leading to buildings at the rear of the lot. The facades are clad in red brick above rusticated brownstone basements.

The windows of No. 340 are capped by simple stone lintels, while sheets metal lintels with small cornices have been added to the window lintels at Nos. 336 and 338. A high parapet has been added above the bracketed roof cornice on No. 336, and the cornice has been replaced on No. 340 by a simple horizontal band course of stone.