Grace Church School

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A pair of 6-story Gothic-revival school buildings completed together in 1903. Designed by Heins & LaFarge, the two joined buildings are clad in beige marble, and have similar massing but different facade details. The entrance is in the northern building, with double wooden doors under a wide, shallow pointed-arch, and up a short set of steps. The doorway is flanked by decorative wrought-iron grilles. At the 2nd-4th floors, wide, projecting bay windows have double tiers of panes, each one arched at the 2nd & 4th floors. The top of this projecting section forms a balcony at the 5th floor, with Gothic ornament in the stone railing. At the sides, a pair of gargoyles support angled pillars lining the facade for the top two floors. The 5th floor has a 5-over-5-paned window, with three narrower, individual arched windows at the top floor. Four gargoyles cap the facade, with a marble trefoil railing at the roof line.

The southern building has three square-headed windows at the ground floor, with wrought-iron grilles. The upper floors have large, slightly-projecting 5-over-5 windows groups, flanked by 1-over-1 windows at the ends. Except for the top two floors, each floor is divided by a horizontal sill course. The windows at the top floor are shorter, as are the outer windows at the 5th floor. The roof line is topped by a marble parapet with panels of concentric squares.

A 4-story white-painted rear addition was completed in 1976 to provide increased space for the Grace Church School that had previously begun occupying the buildings. The addition has a high metal railings around a roof deck.