100 West 79th Street

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5-story Neo-Grec residential building originally completed in 1881. Designed by Chrsitian Blinn, it was the eastern end of a row of six houses, the middle four of which were demolished to make way for an apartment building in the 1900s. The facades have been stripped and re-clad in stuccoed, grey-painted brick above white-painted stone, with the stoop removed and a ground-level entrance to the upper floors created on 79th Street. The ground floor along the avenue has five bays for commercial space - three plate-glass show-windows at the north, and another as the south end, next to a set of glass-and-wood double-doors. The residential entrance on 79th Street has a wood-and-glass door with the transom above filled-in with red brick. There is a single-window to the left.

The upper floors on the narrow north facade have two bays of single-windows with projecting stone surrounds (except on the 2nd floor, where they have been removed and replaced by brick. The remaining surrounds have bracketed sills and cornices. The upper floors of the wider east facade have four bays, three of which have single-windows, and the 2nd from the north having double-windows, without surrounds. The roof line is marked by a metal coping.