112-124 West 88th Street (New York City, New York)

 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of seven 3-story (plus raised basements) Romanesque-revival (with Renaissance and Flemish-revival elements) residential buildings completed together in 1887. Designed by Samuel B. Reed, it was originally a row of eight, but the easternmost house has been demolished. The remaining ones have individualized designs and are clad in red brick above brownstone, with low stoops at the left of each house.

No. 112 at the east end has red brick, rough-faced stone at the basement and sides of the stoop, and rough-faced banding on the stone parlor floor. There is a gate at the base of the stoop, between square newel posts with delicate foliate ornament. The entrance has black wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom and to the right is a wide single-window with an iron grille, both with small cornices above them. There is another wide window with an iron grille at the basement, and a gated basement entry in the side of the stoop. The 2nd floor has a single-window on the left, with a stone sill and hooded lintel, while the right side has a narrow, projecting, black metal bay with three windows, those on the angled sides being quite narrow; this bay is capped by a sloped metal roof. The top floor has two single-windows with a shorter, square window in the middle, each with a stone sill and topped by a round-arch with brown terra-cotta foliate ornament, brick voussoirs, and brownstone eyebrow lintels. The top of the facade has a high parapet with rounded ends, with brownstone coping, and a red terra-cotta panel of Renaissance ornament at the center. The east elevation is paler brick, with no openings.

No. 114 also has red brick on the upper floors and rough-faced brownstone at the basement, with some rough-faced banding around the parlor-floor entrance and more rough-faced stone at the west end. The sidewalls of the stoop have more ornament than No. 112's, and also have different newel posts, with Renaissance ornament on the arched front panels. The entrance has black wood-and-glass double-doors and a shallow-arched fanlight with an ornamented keystone. The wide window to the right is also shallow-arched, with a similar keystone set lower. There is an iron grille on the window, and a carved panel below it. A foliate string course runs across the parlor floor where the arches of the two openings begin. Splayed brownstone surrounds frame the tops of both openings, highlighted by the keystones. The 2nd floor has two single-windows in black iron framing, with a smaller, square stained-glass window in the middle. Both main windows have brownstone arches on top, with foliate ornament, surmounted by brownstone moldings (arched over the windows) and keystones. The western main window has a shallow, rounded, brownstone balconette with a wrought-iron railing. The top floor has three smaller single-windows joined by a brownstone sill and lintel, with another arched lintel above. The roof line has a Flemish gable, stepped at the ends and rounded in the center with a square cap, and with a central red terra-cotta medallion with a female head in profile.

No. 116 is painted white, both at the brick upper floors and stone lower levels, although the steps of the stoop are brown. The design of the stoop matches No. 114's. The entrance has a black wood-and-glass door with a black wooden paneled sidelight and a transom. The parlor floor has rough-faced banding and a wide window to the right, with a basement window below with an iron grille. There are thin cornices above the doorway and parlor-floor windows. The 2nd floor has a tripartite window with narrow end panes and a round-arch above the center window, with Renaissance ornament, surmounted by an eyebrow lintel and keystone. The top floor has a round-arched triple-window above a sill course, with black metal mullions and a keystone. The facade is crowned by a large gable edged in dentils, with a garland in the center surrounded by three rosettes.

No. 118 is similar to No. 114 at the lower levels, except with fully rough-faced and rusticated stone, a lack of ornament on the panels of the newel posts, and more rounded arches at the parlor-floor openings. The entrance has paneled wood-and-glass double-doors below a fanlight, and the window to the right has a decorative white-painted iron grille. The 2nd floor has three windows - the center one is slightly wider and is set in a projecting, black metal surround, with a metal cornice and paneled base extending down. The outer windows have brownstone sills and lintels with cornices. The top floor has two single-windows set closer to the mid-line, flanking a smaller, high-set square window topped by a brownstone round-arch with foliate ornament. All three have brownstone sills and the outer windows have brownstone lintels and cornices. Brick voussoirs line the central arch, edged by brownstone and highlighted by a keystone. The roof line matches No. 114's.

No. 120 is also clad in red brick on the upper floors, with rough-faced, rusticated stone on the lower levels. The stoop matches No. 118's, and the entrance has a paneled, black wooden door with sidelights and paneled transom; the wide single-window to the right has a black iron grille that bows out at the bottom. There are narrow surrounds of smooth brownstone around both openings. The basement window also has an iron grille, and there is a basement entry in the side of the stoop. The stone cladding extends up to the base of the 2nd-floor's east-bay window, which is topped by a lintel and triangular stone pediment. The west bay has a projecting oriel with narrow, angled side panes framed in brownstone. There is a paneled stone base to the oriel and a sloped metal roof. The top floor has a single-window on the left and paired windows on the right, with brownstone sills and lintels, topped by a cornice at the east bay and a rounded pediment at the west. The roof line matches that of No. 116.

No. 122's lower levels match No. 114, except the stoop has different newel posts, squared and simpler, with cut-pyramid caps. The entrance has wood-and-glass double-doors and a shallow-arched fanlight of leaded glass. The upper floors are red brick, with a single-window at the east bay of the 2nd floor, with a brownstone lintel topped by a triangular pediment. The west bay has a similar-sized window in a projecting, black-iron surround very similar to the one at No. 118, but with a pattern of projecting rivets. The top floor has an arched tripartite window with white iron mullions, set off by a brownstone sill course, and the arch lined by a brownstone border with a keystone. There are two wedges of brownstone ornament above the outer parts of the arch, and a stone string course setting off the brick roof parapet, which has rounded ends and a brownstone coping, with a red terra-cotta panel in the center with foliate ornament.

No. 124 had its facade remodeled, and the stoop replaced by a ground-level entrance in 1962, designed by Ifill & Johnson. The entrance, on the left and down several steps from the sidewalk, has a paneled wooden door with a stone lintel overhead. The facade is re-clad in thin red bricks. The basement level is built up to the sidewalk on the right, behind a low iron fence, and has a small, short double-window. The next two floors have wide double-windows with the west panes wider than the east; there are also upper panes on the taller windows of the lower floor. In between these floors is a spandrel of redwood cladding. The top floor has three bays of single-windows with a joined brown-brick sill, and the facade is capped by a brick coping.

Nos. 120-124 remain single-family townhomes, while the others have been divided into multiple units.