The Clarke

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5-story residential building completed in 1891 for Michael H. Gillespie, to a design by George Keister. Consisting of two joined structures behind a unified facade, the ground floor has five bays, clad in cream-colored, rough-faced rusticated stone, as is the basement level. There are round-arched doorways in the easternmost and 2nd-from-westernmost bays, both with short brownstone stoops. There are iron railings at the stoops and around the basement areaways. The doorways are framed by carved pilasters, projected forward, with carved architraves and spandrels above the arches. A dentiled cornice runs across the top of the ground floor. The other three bays have shallow-arched windows, divided in two by metal mullions.

The upper floors are clad in variegated light brown brick, with seven bays of windows recessed between the piers, which form round-arches at the 4th floor. The 2nd- and 3rd-floor windows have reddish-brown stone lintels. At the top of the 5th floor, the outer bays have reddish-brown stoned dentiled cornices. The top floor has more square-headed windows, with a continuous stone lintel course. A white metal fire escape runs down the center bays of the facade, which is crowned by a bracketed cornice above a dentiled fascia board.

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