L' Monette Apartments

 apartment building, 1897_construction, Neo-Renaissance (architecture)

5-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1897. Designed by Neville & Bagge as a tenement, it is clad in orange brick with brownstone trim above a ground floor faced in orange-painted smooth stucco with brownstone trim. The ground floor is set off by a small cornice, and has an entryway approached by a low stoop. The doors and transom above are framed by carved pilasters, and the two double-windows to the sides have brownstone enframements.

The upper floors have brownstone quoins at the corners, and the four bays of single-windows have brownstone enframements up to the 4th floor, the outer bays of which have saw-tooth patterned edges. The two middle bays are topped with rounded pediments on the 3rd floor and triangular pediments on the 4th floor, beveled at the middle bays, and with quoins at the outer bays. At the 3rd & 4th floors the outer bays have intricately carved, bowl-shaped sills, and the middle bays are topped by rounded pediments on the 3rd floor, and triangular pediments on the 4th floor.

The two middle bays of the top floor are joined by a brownstone enframement, while the two outer bays have simple stone sills and splayed lintels. A red-painted iron fire escape runs down the center of the facade. The building is crowned by a modillioned roof cornice.

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