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131 West 71st Street (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 71st Street, 131
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4-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1890. Designed by Thom & Wilson, it is clad in brownstone on the lower floors, with red brick and brownstone trim on the upper floors. The raised basement level is rusticated, with a high stoop on the left leading to a parlor-floor entrance. There is a round-arched basement entrance in the side of the stoop, and a wide window to the right, behind an iron fence. The main entrance has paneled wooden double-doors and a transom. Both the doorway and the window to the right are set in stone frames with delicate beaded moldings. There is a small panel below the window with a carved lion's head and foliate ornament, and a broad band course topping the parlor floor, carved with ribbons, fruit, nuts, and even a pineapple and bursting ear of corn.

The upper floors have two bays of single-windows, with brownstone surrounds at the 2nd & 3rd floors that feature the same paired, beaded moldings. The top floor is set off by a thin, dentiled string course, and its windows have simple, flat stone lintels. The facade is crowned by a brown metal roof cornice with modillions and small dentils at the top and bottom of the fascia board. The east elevation is clad in brown brick.

No. 131 became home to the family of well-known educator Duane Shuler Everson following his marriage to Marie Louise Fergusson in 1895. Unlike so many of the 19th century homes in the neighborhood, No. 131 remained a single-family residence; the Emerson family retaining ownership until 1980.
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Coordinates:   40°46'38"N   73°58'48"W
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