The Amsterdam

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5-story residential building originally completed as three separate row houses in 1891. Designed by Thom & Wilson, the three houses were later joined into a single apartment building. The facade is clad in white-painted stone, rough-faced above the ground floor, which originally had stoops and separate entrances. The individual facades were three bays across, and the westernmost bay projects forward, with an angled back next to it, leading back to the rest of the building line. The current entrance for the building is in this angled bay; both it and the projecting bay have rough-faced stone at the ground level as well. There is a glass-and-wood door, sidelight, and transom below a rounded, navy-blue, canvas canopy. To the east, the ground floor has a single-window, a bay of paired windows, another single-window, and another bay of paired windows, all with metal grilles.

The 2nd floor also has two bays of paired windows, and the other bays have larger openings with double-windows. The 2nd floor is topped by a band course and dentiled cornice. The upper floors have single-windows in every bay, with full stone surrounds including bracketed sills and brackets (fluted at the 3rd floor) supporting small cornices above fluted panels above the windows. The facade is crowned by a white metal roof cornice (also delineated into three parts) with dentils and alternating brackets and short panels.