20 West 70th Street

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5-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1892 as one of five rowhouses (the others were replaced by the apartment building at 18 West 70th). Designed by Buchman & Deisler, this building is faced in white-painted brownstone, and the original stoop has been replaced by a ground-level entrance in the former raised-basement. It has a glass door framed by grey marble, which is in turn framed by pink-pained stone. The rest of the ground floor is banded and has two windows to the right, with iron grilles and sitting above metal vents.

The 2nd floor, the former parlor floor, has a narrow double-window on the left where the original entrance was. To the right are two single-windows, and all the windows have separate upper transoms. The windows are framed by stone surrounds with intricate carved detail, especially between the two single-windows.

At the center of the 3rd-4th floors is a projecting, angled bay with three windows at each floor (the end windows being angled). It springs from a decoratively carved base and has ornate spandrel panels below the 3rd-floor windows, with foliate ornament and a face in the center panel. A dentiled string course runs across the facade between the 3rd & 4th floors, and a small dentiled band course caps the projecting bay. The top floor has three single-windows separated by pilasters. The facade is crowned by a bracketed and dentiled black metal roof cornice, above wreath and crossed-torch ornament at the corners.