Grace Church Rectory

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3-story rectory for Grace Church, built at roughly the same time and completed in 1847. Designed by James Renwick, Jr., who also designed the church building, it is built of the same marble in a complementary Gothic-revival style. It belongs to that early phase of the Gothic Revival in which an attempt was made, by differentiating the bay windows, to make the building appear less symmetrical and thus to romanticize it.

It has three main bays, framed by corner buttresses with pinnacles. An entrance in the center bay is recessed within a pointed-arch vestibule behind an iron gate. Above is a large arched window with tracery. Two piers topped by finials frame the slope roof above. The two outer bays have matching, projecting bay windows in grey metal, with heavy tracery, at the 2nd floor. The northern bay's window extends down the the ground floor, while the south bay has a flush pointed-arched window at the ground floor. Above the projecting bay windows, the outer bays have gables with large pointed-arch windows. The gables are decorated with crockets and finials.