327 West 14th Street

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1851, along with the next door townhouse at No. 325. They were originally built to the same design, with three bays, and still share the same top three floors, but the lower floors have since been altered. No. 327 is clad in brownstone with a street level entrance next to a small storefront, and 2nd-story windows with iron railings and curved stone lintels. A stepped cornice runs between the 2nd and 3rd floors. The top floors have brownstone corbelled sills and curved lintels. The roof is crowned by a black Gothic roof cornice with console brackets.

In 1873 the house was purchased by Alfred C. Hoe, whose brother James bought the matching house next door. Widow Mary Francis Hoe died here in 1918, and her daughter Annie would be the last of the family to reside in the house, until her death in 1943. It has since been divided into apartments.