The Renwick (New York City, New York)

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7-story residential building completed in 1882 as a 6-story loft/warehouse building designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell in the Gothic Revival style. It spans through the block to Fourth Avenue, with frontages on both streets, and a lower portion in the middle. Both sides had set-back penthouse levels added when they were converted to residential use, in around 1980. The building now has 68 condominium units.

The Broadway facade is somewhat more detailed. There is a black cast-iron ground floor storefront, with a main entrance on the north end, featuring intricate wrought-iron gates. The upper floors are clad in tan brick, with four bays of paired windows. On the 2nd-4th floors the window pairs are divided by slender columns with Corinthian capitals and have molded stone enframements. The brick spandrels each have one larger and two smaller rosette-like carved figures set in stone squares. At the 4th floor, the bays terminate in pointed Gothic arches with fanciful tracery. The 5th floor has smaller, individually paired windows topped with pointed-arches featuring similar tracery. The top floors is set off by a sill course above a row of small, pointed-arch-like figures. It has two groups of four pointed-arch windows, topped by an elaborately carved roof cornice.

The south-facing wall is clad in the same brick, with bays of windows near the center that match the patterns laid out on the Broadway facade. The ornate roof cornice is carried around to this elevation as well. Nearly the whole bottom half of the wall is covered in climbing ivy.

On the opposite side, facing Fourth Avenue, also has a black cast-iron ground floor, with tan brick above. The 2nd floor is rusticated, with two windows in each of the center bays, and smaller single windows in the outer bays. Each of these windows is topped by a splayed lintel and scrolled keystone. Stone cornices set of the 3rd-5th floors, which three uninterrupted brick piers forming the two center bays, each of which has a triple-window divided by black metal mullions, and with a dentiled sill course at the 4th & 5th floors. The outer bays have single windows with stone sills, ribbed stone side panels, splayed lintels and keystones. The 6th floor has a row of six round-arched windows in the center, and a single round-arched window in each end bay. Above, a row of brackets supports an arcade of round-arches carrying a stone cornice topped by a black metal roof cornice. The ground floor is occupied by New York Costumes.

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