21-27 East 37th Street (New York City, New York)

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Four 4-story Italianate residential buildings completed together as townhouses in 1895. Designed by David Robins, the facades remain largely unchanged on the upper floors; two of the them have had their stoops removed and street-level entrances installed. All four were converted to multi-family apartments in the later 1900s. No. 21 was originally the home of John Trevor, J.P. Morgans' attorney, whose mansion was across the street.

Each facade is three bays wide, clad in brownstone. They have full stone surrounds on the windows, which grow progressively shorter in height on each floor. There are round-arched doorways (now converted to a window at No. 23, and replaced by a square-headed window at No. 25) on the parlor floors, in the eastern bay of the western two buildings, and the western bay of the eastern two.

No. 21's entry is approached by an L-shaped stoop with black wrought-iron railings. No. 23 has a basement entry, down a short set of steps. No. 25 has a wood-framed doorway topped by a cornice, raised closer to the street level, and No. 26 has has its original paneled wood doors at the top of the high stoop. All four buildings have segmental-arched basement windows with iron grilles. The two western building have rusticated basements and keystones on the windows, while the other two are smooth-stuccoed. The western two buildings have bracketed sills at the windows of the upper floors. The eastern two buildings have simpler sills, and the parlor floor of No. 25 has peaked lintels over the windows; the western window, above the doorway, is fronted by a small wrought-iron railing. The facades are crowned by black or dark brown metal roof cornices with modillions, dentils, and end brackets.