The Greystone

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9-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1913. Designed by George F. Pelham, it is clad in grey brick above a 2-story cream-colored limestone base with a grey granite water table. The facade is organized into two center bays of double-windows (separated by grey iron mullions) and outer bays of three windows. At the ground floor the two center bays are framed by surrounds lined with rosettes and topped by foliate keystones flanked by ribbons and fruit. The western center bay contains the main entrance, with simple glass-and-metal double-doors below a rounded, navy-blue canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The westernmost window on the ground floor is replaced by a service entrance with black iron gate. Banded surrounds encompass all the other windows at the base, with splayed lintels at the 2nd floor, and simple paneled spandrels between the two floors. A simple band course caps the base.

The upper floors have bracketed sills below the outer bays, where there are also projecting drip lintels. A band course with an egg-and-dart molding and a wave motif sets off the top two floors, which have double-height piers edged in bead moldings around the center bays, and 2-story terra-cotta piers with elaborate foliate ornament flanking the end bays, in which the three windows are separated by narrower, plain terra-cotta piers. Shell-like escutcheons top the double-windows at the center bays on both floors, with more of them above each window at the outer bays. The terra-cotta spandrels between the two floors feature paneling, star shapes at the center bays, and roundels at the piers of the outer bays. The facade is crowned by a stone cornice with dentils and paired brackets above the main, outer piers, each surmounted by a pyramid-capped element extending above the roof line. Between these pairs, two large, circular escutcheon-like forms also extend above the roof line.

The side elevations are clad in plain brick with no window openings except for in the light wells found at the middle of both side facades. The building was converted to condominiums in 1986, with 37 units.