Middleton S. Burrill Residence

 townhouse, apartment building

4.5-story Beaux-Arts residential building originally completed in 1862 as a 4-story brownstone townhouse for Richard and Mary Poillon. In 1903 it was given a new facade designed by Hoppin & Koen, for owners Middleton S. Burrill and his wife Emilie Neilson Burrill, who bought the house in 1901.

Three bays wide, the house has a granite stoop with a curve at bottom, with historic ornamental iron balustrades, cast-iron railing, and finials, with wrought-iron framing terminated on the east by a concrete post, followed by non-historic wrought-iron gate and newel posts, terminated on the far-east side of the facade by a concrete post. A sunken areaway with slate tile is also used for the retaining wall. The basement is clad in rusticated limestone. The historic windows were replaced with a single window with non-historic metal grille. The angled, built-out entrance foyer of rusticated concrete is part of a 1946-49 alteration; it features an entrance with fluted pilasters and lintel with as-relief panel in the Adamesque style, non-historic paneled wood door with fanlight and wall lamps.

The parlor floor features a heavily rusticated limestone facade with arched entrance and fenestration with molded keystones, a limestone balcony supported on stone beams with an ornamental iron balustrade. Historic French doors in the two windows were replaced with multiple-light windows in an unusual pattern, and the transoms were replaced with solid panels pierced with two louvered vents on the east and an air conditioner unit on the west. Above the parlor floor is a limestone balcony with a stone balustrade supported on massive scrolled limestone brackets. The next two floors are faced with Philadelphia brick, with the 3rd floor fenestration having full limestone window surrounds with pediments supported on stylized brackets, with possibly historic wood single-light French doors with single light transoms. The next floor's fenestration features shouldered architraves with bracketed sills and prominent keystones, with possibly historic wood, triple-light French doors except at the western window, which has been replaced with a 1-over-1 double-hung window.

The cornice above the 4th floor consists of a limestone crown supported on massive scrolled limestone brackets and modillions, dentil bands followed by egg-and-dart molding, and brick and stone frieze panels with a copper balustrade above the cornice. The building is crowned by a mansard copper roof with three copper dormers having segmental-arched pediments, with paneled pilasters and supported by scrolled brackets. Brick party walls extend above the level of the adjoining houses.

The Burrills left the house in 1929 after which it was used as a rooming house in until 1945, when the property was sold by the trustees of the Burrill estate and converted into apartments and a medical office. The lower level is now occupied by Peterson Chiropractic.

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