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4-story Renaissance-revival church mission building originally completed in 1885 as a small apartment building. Designed by Ralph S. Townsend, it is clad in red brick. The original storefront at the ground floor on the east side has been removed and re-clad in tan brick. The former storefront has a recessed entrance with a set of beige metal doors at the center of the east facade, flanked by two small windows. A single, brown-painted, paneled iron pilaster remains at the north end. There is another beige metal door in the short tan-brick section at the east end of the south facade on 82nd Street. To the left is a tall, narrow former opening, now filled in with brown-painted concrete. Farther left are two single-windows and the building's main entrance, atop a very small 3-step stoop with a wood-and-glass door and transom framed by partially-fluted, brown pilasters, and topped by a fluted entablature and cornice.

The upper floors of the south facade have two bays of paired windows in the middle, and single-window end bays, although the eastern one has been bricked-in. There are thin brownstone sill and lintel courses, and a metal fire escape running down the western paired-window bay. The facade is crowned by a red metal roof cornice.

The upper floors of the east facade on the avenue have two bays of paired windows and the roof cornice continues onto this side. The north and west facades are plain red brick.