The Donac

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5-story Neo-Colonial residential building completed in 1897. Designed by C.P.H. Gilbert, the noted architect who designed the Warburg and Stuyvesant mansions on Fifth Avenue. It was skillfully designed, on a narrow lot, and successfully accomplished the transition from the deep front yards to the west to the sidewalk building line to the east, by means of a concave bay at the building's northwest corner. It is clad in buff-colored brick with splayed lintels above the windows of the front facade. The concave bay has newer windows in a 3-story casement frame that ends in a top-floor porch supporting by a pair of scrolled brackets. The modillioned roof cornice follows the curve of the bay as well. Stone quoins line the edges of the facade.

The entrance at the ground floor is located in the concave bay, and is topped by a stone cornice on three scrolled brackets, with "DONAC" carved into it - standing for Don Alonzo Cushman, who financed the building as well as the row of houses further along this block.