228 West 18th Street

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5-story Romanesque-revival residential building originally completed in 1862 as a pair of tenement buildings. The Kendall family commissioned esteemed architects Lamb & Rich to design a rear building at Nos. 228-230 in 1889. It was most likely at this time that the façade was updated. It is clad in dark-red brick, spanning six bays, with minimal terra-cotta accents. In 1908 D. R. Kendall updated the four-decade old building again. He commissioned architect W. J. Conway to do $5,000 worth of alterations. After owning the property for six decades, the Kendall family sold it in 1922.

The ground floor has modern metal-and-glass storefronts, with a central entrance framed by brown cast-iron pilasters. On the upper floors the two eastern bays are spaced further apart than the western ones. The 2nd floor has round-arched openings with wide brick voussoirs; only the third window from the east is round-arched, the rest are angled to a point below the arch. The left-center bay has an offset vertical mullion dividing the window into two unequal panes. This is repeated in all the upper floors of this bay.

The 3rd & 4th-floor windows are topped by segmental-arches, with tall keystones at the 3rd floor. The two middle bays on the 3rd floor are joined by a foliate terra-cotta band at the bottom. At the top floor the two middle bays have square-headed windows; the outer bays are round-arched. There are three such arches on the east end, with a brick-filled space between the two windows. Like the 2nd floor, these window have angled points at the tops. The arches are supported by small rough-stone brackets. The tops of the arches have thin corbelled bands; additional thin corbelled bands run across the outer bays at the tops of the 4th-floor windows, and across the roof line. A metal fire escape runs down the center of the facade. The building contains 22 apartment units.

The ground floor is occupied by White Maize + Venezuelan restaurant.

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