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17-23 West 95th Street (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 17-23
 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of four 3-story (plus raised basements) Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed together in 1893. Designed by Gilbert A. Schellenger, they are clad in painted brownstone, with similar but individualized designs.

No. 17 at the east end is painted dark-brown, and has a dog-legged box stoop winding down and right from a parlor-floor entrance on the left with paneled wooden double-doors and wrought-iron-and-glass outer doors set in a simple surround. To the right are two single-windows with thinner surrounds, iron grilles that bow out at the bottoms, and carved panels of foliate ornament below. There are square cutouts along the upper sidewalls of the stoop, and its front wall has a small, arched opening with an iron grille at the base, topped by a panel of Renaissance ornament, and a scroll at the east end. The basement level is rough-faced and has two more single-windows with iron grilles; there is a basement entry in the side of the stoop. The 2nd floor has a projecting bay of three windows with angled sides that span almost the full width of the house, rising from a rounded base with ribbed ends and foliate ornament in the middle. The projecting bay is capped by panels of ornament, and the top floor has three single-windows in beveled surrounds. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with its top half having scrolled brackets and modillions, along with some small panels, and the lower half having larger panels between several horizontal bands.

No. 19 is the same color, with a high stoop on the left leading up to a parlor-floor entrance with paneled wooden double-doors and wood-and-glass outer doors below a segmental-arched transom. The doorway and the two segmental-arched single-windows to the right all have banded surrounds, splayed at the tops, and the windows have iron grilles, stained-glass in the upper panes, and carved panels of foliate ornament below. The stoop has square cutouts along the sidewalls and paneled, square newel posts with ornamented caps. The basement level is rough-faced and has two more single-windows with iron grilles, and there is a basement entry in the side of the stoop. The 2nd floor has a projecting bays with angled ends, matching that at No. 17 except for its base being fully decorated with foliate ornament and the panels along the top not having carvings. The top floor has three single-windows, and a beveled molding enframes the entire top two floors. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with scrolled brackets alternating with small, ornamented rectangular panels, above a fretted lower panel.

No. 21 is painted beige, and is very similar to No. 19, except for the parlor floor having square-headed windows and entrance. It has white wood-and-glass double-doors and transom, and leaded-glass in the upper panes of the windows.

No. 23 at the west end is also beige, with a box stoop with brown steps. The stoop matches the one at No. 17, except for the rear sidewall descending and wrapping around the lower landing being replaced by an iron railing. The parlor floor matches No. 19, with banded surrounded, except that they are square-headed instead of arched. The main entrance has paneled wooden double-doors with glass panes in the centers, and a transom. The projecting 2nd-floor bay matches that at No. 17, but without ornament in the panels at the top. The three windows at the top floor has beveled surrounds, and the facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice like the one at No. 17.
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Coordinates:   40°47'29"N   73°57'57"W
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