103-111 West 75th Street

 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of five 5-story (including raised basements) Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed together in 1890. Designed by Ralph S. Townsend, they are clad in brownstone (painted light-grey at Nos. 105 & 107). All of the stoops have been replaced by ground-floor entrance in the former basement levels, a couple steps down from the sidewalk.

No. 103 at the east end is painted brown, and has a rough-faced, rusticated ground floor. The entrance is on the left, with a glass door, and to the right the facade projects sharply out, with a window in the angled side and another facing front at the east end. These have iron grilles at the ground floor, where they are set behind an iron fence. There is a single-window bay above the entry; at the 2nd floor is is topped by a hooded lintel with carved foliate ornament and a cornice that continues to the right across the rest of the 2nd floor, following the projecting bay. There are carved foliate panels below the other two windows. The floors above have thin sill courses and stone surrounds with small cornices at the windows. The top-floor windows are round-arched, and the facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with modillions, dentils, and panels, following the projecting bay.

No. 105 has three bays of single-windows at each floor, at then ground floor has been re-clad with tan brick. It has a glass door on the left, and an iron fence in front of the two windows to the right, both of which have iron grilles. There is a band course between the 2nd & 3rd floors, continuous across all five facades. The 3rd & 4th floors have thin stone surrounds at the windows, with small cornices, and (at the 3rd floor) foliate decoration below the cornices. Like the other facades, the top-floor windows are round-arched. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with modillions, dentils, and a frieze with a wave pattern.

No. 107 also has a rough-faced, rusticated ground floor, with a glass door on the left, and iron grilles on the two windows. At the upper floors, the western of the three single-windows is set a bit farther apart. Between the eastern two at the top of the 2nd floor is a pilaster-like bracket (with fluting and banding) that carries the fluted, rounded base for a curved, projecting 2-window bay at the 3rd floor; all three of the 3rd-floor windows have stone quoins edging them. The 4th floor has stone surrounds with small cornices, and the top floor has round-arched windows. The facade is crowned by a green metal roof cornice matching the one on No. 103, but flat.

No. 109 is an almost exact match of No. 105, but without the brick re-cladding on the ground floor, and the facade being a natural brown color.

No. 111 at the west end has a glass door on the left. To the right is a rounded, projecting bay with rough-faced, rusticated piers and two windows with iron grilles. This rounded bay extends up through the 3rd floor, with pilasters around the 2nd-floor windows (and carved foliate panels below) and stone keys and bead moldings at the 3rd floor. The single-window above the entry on both floors shares the same features, as well as a small triangular pediment at the 3rd floor. The 4th-floor windows have stone surrounds with small cornices, and the 5th-floor windows are round-arched. The facade is crowned by the same style roof cornice as No. 107.