6 West 74th Street (New York City, New York)

 rowhouse, apartment building

4-story Neo-Georgian residential building completed in 1906. Designed by Welch, Smith & Provot, it is clad in yellow-tan brick above a limestone ground floor. It was originally one of a pair with No. 8, which was demolished in 1940 to make way for the apartment house at 10 West 74th. The eastern bay of the facade projects out, with the western two bays set back. A low, angled and curved stoop of four steps, between two low side walls topped by wrought-iron fencing, leads up to an entrance in the middle bay that has a black wooden door and transom. The right side of the projecting bay has anothe entrance with a wrought-iron door and transom, and is crowned by a limestone lintel, supported on a keystone and brackets with guttae. The projecting lintel is incorporated into the wide stone band course at the top of the ground floor, above which a mock-parapet marks the final transition between the lower two floors. The other two bays have windows with wrought-iron grilles.

The upper floors have four windows, one each in the three forward-facing bays and one in the side of the projecting east bay. There are splayed brick-and-stone lintels at the 2nd & 3rd floors, wrought-iron balconette railings at the bases of the transomed 2nd-floor windows, and bracketed stone sills at the 3rd-floor windows. A molded limestone band course separates the 3rd- & 4th-floor windows, and its top is interrupted by the wrought-iron grilles of the 4th-floor windows. The splayed stone lintels of these windows form the limestone band course that extends below the black metal roof cornice set on modillions.