331 West 16th Street | apartment building

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5-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1891. The ground floor is clad in heavily rusticated brownstone and a thick cornice. A low stoop leads to a doorway framed by Corinthian columns supporting an entablature which, in turn, supports the base of the iron fire escape. The doorway is framed by a pair of segmental-arched windows. A stairway down to a basement entrance on the left is enclosed by a brown metal cage.

The upper floors are clad in red brick with shallow-arched windows on the 4th & 5th floors. The spandrels between the windows of the 2nd, 3rd & 4th floors have ornamental carved terra-cotta panels. The piers that run from the 2nd-4th floors are topped by Corinthian capitals supporting the arches at the 5th floor. A stone band course forms the sills of the top floor windows, and the building is capped by a rough black metal roof cornice with dentiled fascia board.