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25-31 West 95th Street (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 25-31
 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of four 4-story (including raised basements) Renaissance-revival (with Northern Renaissance elements) residential buildings completed together in 1887. Designed by Charles T. Mott, they are arranged in a mirror-image A-B-B-A pattern, although No. 25 has been stripped and resurfaced. The others are clad in red brick, brownstone, and cast-iron.

No. 25 at the east end is now faced in light-grey stone. The stoop is replaced by a ground-level entrance on the left, down a step from the sidewalk, with a wood-and-glass door. To the right is a wide single-window, and then another single-window bay angled back, both with iron grilles. The upper floors have three single-windows with both outer bays angled back. The original ornament has been removed from the facade, which is capped by a metal coping.

No. 27 has a straight stoop on the left, leading up to a round-arched parlor-floor entrance with a slightly-recessed, paneled wooden door with many small glass panes below a fanlight. The parlor floor and basement are clad in brownstone, mostly rough-faced, with smooth stone splayed lintels above the doorway and the wide, segmental-arched double-window to its right, which has a stained-glass fanlight. The basement has a double-window as well, and there is a basement entry in the side of the stoop. The upper floors are red brick, joined with the neighboring house to the west. There is a central, projecting, curved bay of two windows in black cast-iron at the top two floors, with separate upper transoms at each floor. The projecting bays are framed by iron pilasters that are fluted at their lower halves at both floors, with ornamented panels above and stylized capitals. There are also an ornamented pilaster between the two windows on both floors, and foliate ornament on the curved spandrel between the floors. A thin band of ornament tops the upper floor, with a dentiled band course capping the projecting bay. Extending from the sides at the top of the projecting bay is a band of brownstone with broad leaf designs. The facade is crowned by a brick parapet with a metal coping.

No. 29 mirrors No. 27, but with paneled wooden double-doors and wood-and-glass outer doors, and regular glass in the fanlight of the fanlight's double-window. The projecting bay at the floors above is painted a coppery brown, with a small gable rising above its cornice in place of the roof parapet. There are also two posts rising up from above the pilasters below, framing the gable, and capped by ball finials.

No. 31 at the west end has a stoop on the right, with replacement iron handrails, leading up to a parlor-floor entrance with a black wooden door and transom framed by thin, fluted, black pilasters. The basement and parlor floor are clad in rough-faced, light-brown stone. The west bay is angled back, as are both of the outer bays at the upper floors (the parlor-floor entrance cuts into the angled facet, and the stoop extends from it). There is a smooth stone band above the basement windows, and smooth stone splayed lintels above the parlor-floor windows. The upper floors are red brick, with brownstone keys at the edges and at the angled intersections of the three bays; there are also brownstone bands across the windows and below the 2nd floor. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with three panels of garlands and ribbons, and large dentils on the lower edge.

Nos. 27 & 29 are single-family townhomes, while the other two are divided into multiple units.
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Coordinates:   40°47'29"N   73°57'58"W
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