320 West 17th Street

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5-story Romanesque/Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1897. It is clad in beige-painted brick with stone window sills and lintels. The ground floor, set behind a fence, has painted cast-iron pilasters at the ends at framing the central doorway, which has narrow wood-and-glass double-doors below a transom. On either side is a double-window with an iron grille.

The upper floors have four bays of single-windows, and there is a decorative wrought-iron band course below the 2nd floor. Brick piers rise up from the 2nd floor to the bottom of the 4th, where they terminate in a carved stone band course. From the 4th floor up, stone quoins runs up the corners of the facade. The top floor windows are round-arched, and the building is crowned by a projecting, black metal cornice with brackets, dentils, and a narrow, patterned frieze. A black iron fire escape runs down the center of the facade.

The exposed east facade is parged brick, painted grey (beige at the front). There are several bays of single-windows.