Winston Preparatory School

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6-story Romanesque-revival school building completed in 1900 as the Xavier Parochial School. It has a 2-story base of rusticated limestone; at either end is an entrance up a set of steps (originally one each for boys and girls). Both entrances are framed by polished granite Corinthian columns and topped by dentiled cornices below a projecting round-arch surrounding a small circular window at the 2nd floor. The arches are topped by crosses. In between the two entrances are three round-arched windows with two smaller ones in between. The larger ones have more elaborate molded hoods, and circular openings at the 2nd floor with elaborate stone surrounds. Above the smaller windows are simple stone circles.

The upper floors are clad in red brick. There are three center bays of paired windows divided by ornately carved terra-cotta pilasters, and two outer bays of three such windows separated by the same terra-cotta pilasters. Between the 3rd & 4th floor, a wide brick spandrel with a frame of white stone in the middle bays still bears the words Xavier Parochial School. The spandrels in the outer bays are also framed in white stone, with a stone circle in the middle of each.

A broad stone band course with stylized stone capitals at the main piers and cartouches at the pilasters separated the 5th floor. This floor has rounded Corinthian columns fronting the pliasters, and stone panels with very elaborate carvings on the piers. Above a brick parapet, the 6th floor is set far back from the building line.

The building now houses the Winston Preparatory School, the first high school in New York City devoted specifically to students with learning disabilities.