Samuel T. Andrews House

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3-story Greek-revival residential building completed in 1842 for Samuel T. Andrews. It is clad in red brick above a brownstone basement. The small, squat stoop has notable handrails, with cast-iron rings embraced by palmettes forming the panel designs over which the railing sweeps dramatically down to the lower step of the paneled stone wing walls. The stoop leads up to a wood-framed doorway with paneled wooden double-doors, a leaded-glass transom, and a carved entablature above. The three bays of windows have brownstone sills and lintels. The building is crowned by a bracketed and modillioned black metal roof cornice.

Auctioneer George N. Crawford purchased the house in 1844, followed by Samuel Adams Lawrence and his wife, the former Catharine Remsen, in 1851. Catharine sold the house in 1856 to James Cowl. The family of Joseph Augustus Phillips followed the Cowls, in 1863. Builder Warren A. Conover purchased the house in 1876. It was most likely Conover who updated it with a neo-Grec cornice above the doorway and new entrance doors. The Conovers remained in the house through 1897. The house was finally converted to apartments in 1964, when it was renovated to two duplexes. One of them doubled as John Clacy's School of Cooking and Baking in the mid- to late-1970s. It currently serves as a 2-family townhouse.

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