121-125 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 brownstone, to matching designs. Each has a high stoop on the left, with iron handrails, leading up to parlor-floor entrances. The basement levels to the right are lightly rusticated, with wide windows with iron grilles. The doorways are framed by narrow, paneled pilasters with small brackets and peaked lintels with lightly-incised decoration, matching the doorways of Grenell's other row houses to the east. To the right, each house has a large parlor-floor window with fluted pilasters, a bracketed sill, and another lintel. Between the doorway and window is a large bracket supporting an oriel window bay at the 2nd floor. This projecting bay is of black iron, with three windows and angled sides. It projects out farther than the oriels on the row to the east, necessitating the inclusion of a supporting bracket. Narrow pilasters frame the windows, with panels below, and delicate ornament above, and the oriels are capped by modillioned cornices. The top floors have two bays of single-windows framed by thin, fluted pilasters and topped by lintels with delicate scrolls. The facade are crowned by black metal roof cornices with three main brackets, and pairs of smaller brackets surrounded by panels and dentils.

The entrance to No. 121, on the east end, has black wood-and-glass outer doors and paneled black wooden double-doors behind them, below a transom. No. 123 has light-colored, paneled wooden double-doors and a transom. No. 125 at the west end has brown wood-framed glass double-doors and a transom. There are also gated basement entries in the side of each stoop.

Nos. 123 & 125 remain single-family townhomes, while No. 121 has been divided to include an apartment residence.