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3-story Italianate studio building completed around the 1850s as a townhouse. Today it is owned and operated by an artist. The studio spaces are rented solely to artists for the development of their craft. It is clad in red-painted brick above a semi-raised brownstone basement and green-painted stoop. The basement level has a door (down a set of steps) and a window framed in brick. The recessed doorway is segmental-arched, with rope moldings and a fanlight over the doors. Two black-painted brackets flank the entrance supporting a black-painted segmental-arched dentiled lintel. The two tall parlor-floor windows have black-painted segmental-arched dentiled lintels and frames. The top two floors both have three segmental-arched windows with arched, dentiled lintels, painted black. A black metal fire escape runs from the east bay at the top floor to west bay at the 2nd floor, and then down to the adjoining building. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with scrolled brackets and panels. There is a single window on the short western elevation.

In 1974 the basement level was converted to an off-Broadway theater space, with offices in the upper floors. Today the house is used as an art studio.

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