115-119 West 87th Street (New York City, New York)

 townhome, rowhouse

A row of three 3-story (plus raised basements) Neo-Grec residential buildings completed together in 1884. Designed by Increase M. Grenell, they are clad in painted brownstone, with matching designs except for the variations in the high stoops at the left of each house.

No. 115 at the east end is painted light-brown and its stoop has metal handrails with squared stone newel posts at the base, both paneled at topped by orbs. To the right are two basement windows with iron grilles, set behind an iron fence. There is a gated basement entry in the side of the stoop. The parlor-floor entrance has paneled, black wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom, framed by narrow, paneled pilasters with small brackets carrying a peaked lintel with lightly-incised decorations. A double-window to the right has fluted pilasters, a sill with three small brackets, a peaked lintel like the one over the doors, and simpler iron grilles than at the basement level. The 2nd floor has a projecting oriel of black iron, with two front-facing windows and two angled end windows. These windows are also framed by fluted iron pilasters, with panels below, incised flowery decorations above, and a modillioned iron cornice capping the oriel. The top floor has two bays of single-windows with fluted pilasters, small brackets, and flat lintels with the same style of lightly-incised ornament. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with three main brackets, with pairs of smaller brackets in between, and panels and dentils surrounding these.

No. 117 is also painted light-brown, and its stoop has stone sidewalls that turn outward at the base; the eastern one extends to become a stone front wall, with a gated opening to the basement areaway. The parlor-floor entrance has a black wood-framed glass door and narrow sidelight below a wooden panel. The house's facade otherwise exactly matches No. 115.

No. 119 at the west end is painted grey with white trim. Its stoop has white-painted stone handrails with candlestick-shaped balusters and angular newel posts at the base with pointy finials. The parlor-floor entrance has paneled wooden double-doors with small, vertical slit windows below a leaded-glass transom. The rest of the facade matches the other houses, with the roof cornice painted white.

No. 119 remains a single-family home, while the other two have been divided into multiple residences.