41-57 West 89th Street

 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of nine 4-story (plus raised basements) Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed together in 1893. Designed by Henry Andersen, they are clad in painted brownstone and brick, and arranged in an A-B-C-D-A-D-C-B-A- pattern.

No. 41 at the east end is all stone, painted white. Its stoop is replaced by a ground-level entrance on the right, down a step from the sidewalk, with a black wood-and-glass door. The basement level is rough-faced and has two single-windows to the left of the entry, with iron grilles. The original parlor-floor entrance is replaced by narrow, round-arched double-window, bordered by a molding of foliate and scrolled ornament that is edged by a bead molding. The two round-arched single-windows to the left have egg-and-dart moldings, and all three openings have lion-head keystones. Above the center keystone is the rounded, foliate carved base for a projecting, bowed bay at the next floor, with a band of dentils along the base (with small shells below it at the ends). The projecting bay has three windows framed by fluted Ionic pilasters, and the ends of the bay are flanked by pilasters with foliate ornament. The projecting bay is capped by a cornice with an egg-and-dart molding. The top two floors have three bays of single-windows, round-arched with keystones at the top floor, and with egg-and-dart moldings on the floor below. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets, and a frieze with ribbed bars separating alternating panels of swags and protruding rectangles.

No. 43 is painted light-brown on the lower floors, and has red brick on the upper floors, with stone trim. A dog-legged box stoop winds down and right from a parlor-floor entrance with double-doors of wood with frosted-glass and wrought-iron tracery, below a transom. The doorway is framed by a surround with an egg-and-dart molding, as are the two single-windows to the right, with rope moldings at the inner edges. Below the windows are small sets of brackets framing two panels with swags. The stoop has Renaissance ornament on the newel posts, and a row of dentils on the front wall, which has a small, circular opening. The upper sidewalls stair-step down to the landing. The basement level is rough-faced and has two single-windows with iron grilles. The parlor floor is topped by a narrow panel with swags and ribbons below a dentil course. The brick 2nd & 3rd floors have two bays of wide single-windows with brownstone surrounds with inner rope moldings, and dentils around the outer edges; they are topped by small cornices at the 2nd floor and have brackets sills at the 3rd. The top floor is set off by a band course with rough-faced blocks and has a triple-window separated by Ionic columns. A lintel course across the top is surmounted by dentils. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets and a frieze with three shells and two panels.

No. 45 is fully clad in stone. It has a straight stoop on the left, with the east sidewall curving out at the bottom; the newel posts are carved with Renaissance ornament and topped by ribbed caps. The basement level is rough-faced and has two single-windows with iron grilles; there is an arched basement entry in the side of the stoop. The parlor-floor entrance has wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom, framed by a rope molding and a surround with a leaf molding. Similar surrounds frame the two single-windows to the right, which also have iron grilles; below them is a panel of elaborate foliate ornament above a thin band of interwoven circles. The 2nd floor has a central, projecting bay of three windows, with a dentil course near the base that continues along the rest of the row. There are egg-and-dart lintels above the windows, topped by rows of small, arched niches. A dentiled cornice and parapet caps the projecting bay, and there is rough-faced stone at the edges of the facade on the 2nd & 3rd floors. The 3rd floor has three single-windows (with rough-faced pilasters in between) in stone surrounds, topped by an arcade of arches with shell patterns. The top floor is set off by a dentiled band course and has three plain single-windows. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice similar to the one at No. 41.

No. 47 is clad in brownstone on the lower floors, and yellow brick with stone trim on the upper. The stoop has been replaced by a ground-level entrance on the left, down a step from the sidewalk, with a red wood-and-glass door. This entry matches those created at No. 49 & 51 as well, and each has a lion's head keystone above the door. The basement level is rough-faced and rusticated, and has two single-windows with iron grilles. The original parlor-floor entrance is replaced by a narrow double-window and transom; it and the two single-windows to the right have surrounds with inner rope moldings and bellflowers around the outer edge. The parlor floor is capped by a narrow ornamental band and dentils matching that on No. 43. The next floor has two single-windows with stone surrounds, and the following floor has three slightly narrower windows with similar surrounds. The top floor also has three windows with a ribbed sill course. The facade is crowned by a yellow metal roof cornice with brackets and a frieze of alternating panels and shell designs.

No. 49's ground-level entrance is on the right, and the basement level matches No. 47's, but with slightly narrower windows. The original parlor-floor entrance is replaced by a narrow double-window and fanlight in a round-arched surround with Renaissance ornament and an outer bead molding. The two round-arched single-windows to the left have surrounds with egg-and-dart moldings, and all three openings have lion-head keystones. The design otherwise matches that seen at No. 41, with the roof cornice painted yellow.

No. 51 matches the design of No. 47, as a mirror-image.

No. 53 repeats the design of No. 45 and is painted red, with the exception of the basement level, which has been re-clad in pale-red brick. The box stoop is unpainted concrete with a circular opening in the front wall. The parlor-floor entrance has wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom. The roof cornice is painted brown.

No. 55 repeats the design of No. 43 and is painted light-beige. Its stoop is replaced by a ground-level entrance on the right, down a couple steps from the sidewalk, with a wood-and-glass door below a short, rounded, black canvas canopy. The original parlor-floor entrance is replaced by a narrow double-window. The roof cornice is painted black.

No. 57 at the west end is also light beige and repeat the design of Nos. 41 & 49. Its stoop is replaced by a ground-level entrance on the left, down a couple steps from the sidewalk, with a wood-and-glass door below a short, rounded, black canvas canopy. The original parlor-floor entrance is replaced by a narrow double-window and fanlight in a round-arch. The roof cornice is black.

No. 43 remains in use as a single-family townhome, while the others are divided into multiple units.