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43-51 West 95th Street (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 43-51
 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of five 3-story (plus raised basements) Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed together in 1892. Designed by Martin V.B. Ferdon, they are clad in brownstone and arranged in an A-B-A-B-A pattern.

No. 43 at the east end has a high stoop on the left, with iron handrails and squared newel posts, leading up to a parlor-floor entrance with paneled wooden double-doors and grey wood-and-glass outer doors below a transom. The entrance and the two single-windows to the right have patterned moldings, and a band across the parlor floor (near the tops of these openings) is carved with foliate ornament. There are also carved panels below the two windows. The basement level is rough-faced, except at the top, and also has two single-windows, and a gated basement entry in the side of the stoop. The basement and parlor-floor windows have iron grilles. The top two floors have a central, somewhat projecting bay of three windows, with angled sides, carried on a pair of elaborately carved brackets. There are panels of Renaissance ornament below the 2nd-floor windows, and a continuous panel between the 2nd & 3rd floors. There are fluted capitals to the pilasters framing the windows at the 3rd floor, with shallow-arched lintels also carved with ornament. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice that also angles back at the ends, with a pattern of rosettes at the top half, and a row of small roundels and a ribbed band across the bottom.

No. 45 has stone sidewalls on its stoop, and the entrance has paneled wooden double-doors and brown wood-and-glass outer doors below a transom. The parlor-floor's moldings only run across the tops of the windows and doors, and there are no grilles on the windows. The basement level is smooth and rusticated, but otherwise the same. The projecting bay at the upper floors is curved instead of angled; there are no carved panels below the 2nd-floor windows, but there are below the 3rd-floor windows. The band across the bay, near the tops of the 3rd-floor windows is different, and these windows are topped by flat moldings. The roof cornice is also curved, with dentils near the top and the bottom half having a frieze of floral ornament.

No. 47 repeats the "A" design of No. 43. The stoop has stone sidewalls, and there is no transom; instead, the taller wooden double-doors each have seven stacked panels.

No. 49 repeats the "B" design of No. 45. The stoop has metal handrails, and the entrance has the same tall, paneled wooden double-doors as No. 47. The basement and parlor-floor windows have interesting iron grilles with diagonal, geometric patterns.

No. 51 at the west end repeats the "A" design, and also has the taller wooden double-doors, with stone sidewalls on the stoop.

Nos. 43, 45, & 49 are single-family townhomes, while the other two have separate apartment units on at least one of the floors.
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Coordinates:   40°47'30"N   73°57'59"W
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