11-17 West 89th Street

 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of four 4-story (plus raised basements) Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed together in 1895. Designed by Neville & Bagge, they are clad in brownstone and terra-cotta, arranged in an A-B-B-C pattern.

No. 11 at the east end has a high stoop on the left, leading up to a parlor-floor entrance with a glass-and-wood door and transom. The sidewalls of the stoop have alternating circular and oval-like cutouts, and the entrance is framed by thin, paneled pilasters with small console brackets carrying a cornice. To the right, the facade has a cylindrical projecting bay of two windows. It is banded at the parlor floor and basement level; there are iron grilles over the basement windows, and also over the lower halves of the parlor-floor windows, bowing out at the bottoms. A band course with a Greek fret motif runs across the top of the parlor floor and continues unbroken across the rest of the row as well. The upper floors have single-windows in the west bay. At the 2nd & 3rd floors they have stone surrounds topped by ornament in the form of two figures flanking a shield-like element. There are carved shields in the spandrel panels between the 2nd & 3rd floors in the rounded bay, which is capped at the 3rd floor by a cornice and metal railing. Above this, the 4th floor's eastern two windows still project, just not as far and flat instead of round. All three 4th-floor windows are round-arched with drip moldings topped by shells. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets and dentils.

No. 13 has its stoop replaced by a ground-level entrance on the left, down a couple steps from the sidewalk, with a wood-and-glass door slightly recessed below a wooden panel. The lower two floors are banded, and the former parlor-floor entrance has been replaced by a wide single-window with a surround that is ornamented at the corners and has an acanthus-leaf keystone. There are two single-windows to the right on both floors, with iron grilles. The middle of the next floor has a bowed, projecting bay of three windows, with a rounded base that has foliate carvings below the Greek fret band. Ionic pilasters separate the three windows, and there is a band with elaborate garlands and ribbons at the top, surmounted by an egg-and-dart molding and a stone parapet capping the projecting bay. The next floor has two single-windows with stone surrounds and cornices carried on brackets. The top floor, set off by a string course, has three round-arched windows with drip lintels topped by shells. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets, dentils, and panels alternating with roundels.

No. 15 is a mirror-image of No. 13, but retains its high stoop on the right, with squared newel posts at the base that have ribbed, rounded caps. The parlor-floor entrance has black wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom. Only the basement-level windows have grilles.

No. 17 at the west end is fairly similar to a mirror-image of No. 11, but the rounded, projecting bay does not extend as far out, and extends only three levels instead of four. The stoop has been replaced by a ground-level entrance on the right, down a step from the sidewalk, with a glass-and-iron door below a tile mosaic of winged angels flanking a shield with the number 17. A narrow double-window replaces the original parlor-floor entrance. There are stained-glass panels below each parlor-floor window. At the 2nd floor from the top, the paired windows on the left are framed by fluted pilasters and topped by an entablature with roundels.