33-47 West 75th Street (New York City, New York)

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A row of eight 5-story (including raised basements) Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed together in 1891. Designed by George M. Walgrove, they are clad in painted brownstone, with the exception of No. 33 at the east end, which had a new facade installed in 1909, designed by Mann & MacNeille.

No. 33 is now clad in red brick with limestone trim. The ground floor has a central entrance down a couple steps from the sidewalk, via an opening in a low brick wall topped with limestone. The entry has a wrought-iron-and-glass door with an intricate pattern, flanked by slightly-projecting brick pilasters with light fixtures. There is a window with iron grille to the right, and a secondary wood-and-glass door to the left; a broad stone band course caps the ground floor. The upper floors have three bays of single-windows with dark-green metal framing. Those on the 2nd floor have upper transoms and are topped by brick round-arches (above a thin stone string course) with keystones and small white marble roundels within the arches. The windows on the floors above have simple stone sills and splayed brick lintels. The facade is crowned by a brown metal roof cornice with modillions and metopes.

No. 35 has its entrance on the left, with glass-and-wrought-iron double-doors in a brick surround. To the right is a projecting, 3-window bay with angled sides, extending up through the 4th floor. At the ground floor the windows have iron grilles. Pilasters separate the windows on the upper floors of the projecting bay, and also flank the narrow double-window to the left on the 2nd floor, where the original parlor-floor entrance was. The 3rd floor has smaller pilasters at the single-window on the left, which is crowned by a pediment broken by a fruit garland. The 4th floor has a similar pediment, but this one is peaked. Cornices mark each floor at the projecting bay. The top floor has a single-window on the left, and three windows on the right; both groups are framed by keyed stone surrounds. The facade is crowned by a grey metal roof cornice with brackets and a paneled fascia board.

No. 37 is painted white, and has a ground floor entrance at the right, replacing the stoop. It has a glass door, and the 1st floor has rough-faced stone banding, with two windows to the left. The 2nd floor has three bays of single-windows flanked by projecting pilasters with stylize capitals; between the east and center bays the pilasters are thinner and doubled. There is a 2-story projecting, 3-window bay with angled sides at the 3rd-4th floors. To the left both floors have single-windows in surrounds with decorative moldings, topped by cornices. Cornices also top the two levels of the projecting bay. The top floor has three single-window bays, with surrounds and cornices matching the single-windows below. The facade is crowned by a brown metal roof cornice with modillions and a row of outlined squares on the frieze, which doesn't quite span the full width of the facade.

No. 39 is brown, with its stoop replaced by a ground-level entrance on the left. It has a glass-and-metal door, and there are two windows with iron grilles to the right. The 2nd floor has a large window where the original entrance was, topped by an entablature and cornice with foliate carving. To the right are two single-windows separated by a colonette and framed to the outside by fluted pilasters with Ionic capitals; scrolled bases support both the colonette and pilasters. Topping the cornice above these windows, the 3rd floor has a carved panel below paired single-windows on the right, which are flanked by pilaster that are fluted only at the bottom halves. The 4th-floor paired windows have paneled pilasters, and in each case they support a cornice above. The 5th floor has thinner pilasters and another cornice, matched by the single-window on the left. The single-window at the 3rd & 4th floors have stone surrounds, topped by a triangular pediment and a rounded pediment, respectively. The facade is crowned by a dark-grey metal roof cornice with four brackets, swags in the outer panels, and two squares in the middle panel.

No. 41 is also painted white. The ground-floor entrance replacing the stoop has a glass door in a grey granite surround. The two windows to the right have iron grilles and are flanked by a pair of large console brackets that support a projecting, flat bay at the 2nd-3rd floors. It has paired windows, with upper transoms at the 2nd floor. There are carved panels of foliate ornament below the windows on both floors, and carved pilasters at the ends of the bay on the 3rd floor. The original parlor-floor entrance now has a window with a fanlight in an arched opening, with a lion's head keystone surrounded by foliate ornament. The single-window above at the 3rd floor has a stone surround, above a carved panel, and the top of the surround peaks upward to a small floral decoration. The top two floors have three bays of single-windows with stone surrounds, including cornices. The facade is crowned by a dark-grey metal roof cornice with a foliate frieze.

No. 43 matches No. 35 exactly, except for the ground floor, where the entrance has a glass door in a simple surround, below a carved panel of Renaissance ornament.

No. 45 is very similar to No. 43, but its projecting bay extends one less floor, ending at the 3rd. The facade is painted beige, and the ground-floor entrance on the left is clad in white brick around the glass door. The other differences are the lack of pilasters around the windows, the bracketed lintel above the 2nd-floor window, the lack of pediments topping the surrounds at the single-windows on the 3rd & 4th floors, and the three bays of single-windows on the top two floors, which have full surrounds with cornices. The center bay at the 4th floor has its cornice raised higher, above a bead molding. The black metal roof cornice is similar to No. 41's.

No. 47 at the west end is also painted beige. It retains its dog-legged box stoop winding down and to the right from a parlor-floor entrance with wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom. There are two windows next to and behind the stoop. The transom at the entry is flanked by a pair of console brackets supporting an entablature with carved foliate ornament. Two tall windows to the right have iron grilles. They are separated by a colonette with a Corinthian capital and flanked by fluted pilasters. The colonette and pilasters spring from squat brackets and support another entablature. The 3rd floor also has paired windows at the right, framed by three pilasters fluted at their lower halves, with a carved foliate panel below, and cornice on top. The single-window to the left, and the three on each of the top two floors have full surrounds with bracketed sills and cornices. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets and a row of square across the fascia board.