355 Central Park West | apartment building

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5-story Romanesque/Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1893. Designed by Gilbert A. Schellenger, along with the townhouse to the north, it is clad in light grey-brown Roman brick on the three upper floors, and grey stone at the lower two. It was originally part of a row of five houses.

The ground floor is lightly banded and has a paneled wooden door on the right, down a couple steps from the sidewalk, replacing the original small stoop. To the left are two short windows with iron grilles. The 2nd floor has three windows in molded surrounds, with the wider north window replacing the original parlor-floor entrance.

The brick upper floors have regularly-spaced brick quoins at the edges, and are dominated by an almost full-width 3-sided angled oriel of white terra-cotta. The 2-story oriel carried on modillions has such classically-inspired detail as incised pilasters with foliate capitals and swag-adorned friezes; a dentiled cornice tops each floor. A triple-window at the top floor is framed in terra-cotta. The facade is terminated by a deep projecting bracketed and modillioned cornice above a swag-adorned frieze, painted white.

The house was divided into apartments in 1931, but was restored to a single-family townhome in 2009.