Max Schwerin House

 townhouse, 1850s construction, Italianate style (architecture)

4-story Italianate residential building completed in 1856 for Max Schwerin on the former Moore estate. It is clad in brownstone with a high stoop with iron handrails leading to an elaborately-carved brownstone enframement of the parlor floor entrance with acanthus-carved console brackets supporting a segmental-arched pediment which is faced with carved vines on either side of a large shell. The entry has carved, black wooden double-doors, and wood-and-glass outer doors. To the right are two tall, segmental-arched parlor-floor windows, and below them are segmental-arched basement windows with iron grilles.

The upper floor have three bays of shorter windows, all with segmental-arched tops and brownstone lintels, sills, sill brackets, and surrounds. The house is slightly taller than its neighbors and its elaborate Italianate bracketed cornice makes a break in the otherwise continuous cornice line.

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