Norwood Club (New York City, New York)

 townhouse, event management company, historical layer / disappeared object, social club

4-story Italianate residential building completed in 1847 as a townhouse for Andrew Norwood, a stockbroker and developer. One of the first masonry houses built on this street, it is clad in orange brick above a rusticated brownstone basement with a high stoop. To the right of the entry, two full-height French doors with eared enframements open onto the original cast-iron balcony. The doorway itself has an elegant Doric entablature, carried on Doric pilasters, which is ornamented with triglyphs above guttae. The central triglyph acts as a bracket for the cornice above. The three bays of windows are framed in brownstone, and the house is topped by a wooden modillioned roof cornice. The house was inherited by Norwood's son in 1858 and remained in the family until the turn of the century.

It is now occupied by a social club which was founded in 2007 by Alan Linn and Steve Ruggi as a modern gentleman's club for the creative types. Its interior was designed by Simon Costin. The club closed in 2022.

www.norwoodclub.com/

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