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123-133 West 95th Street (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 123-133
 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of six 3-story (plus raised basements) Jacobean-revival residential buildings completed together in 1887. Designed by William J. Merritt, the row is arranged as a mirror-image. The facades are clad in red brick with brownstone trim (painted white at Nos. 127-129) above rough-faced, rusticated brownstone lower levels (also painted white at the middle two houses).

No. 123 at the east end has a round, projecting bay on its east half, with three windows per floor except for the basement level, which has two windows. A stoop on the left leads up to a round-arched parlor-floor entrance with a red wood, iron, and glass door and fanlight. The parlor-floor and basement windows have iron grilles, and the parlor floor is capped by a smooth brownstone band with dentils along the top. The top floors have smooth brownstone surrounds at the windows in the round bay; to the left is a small single-window at both floors, with brownstone sills, lintels, and keys; keys also frame the edges of the west bay. The facade is crowned by a black metal band course with modillions and dentils, curving around the projecting bay and surmounted by a brick parapet and thin metal cornice.

No. 125 has a matching stoop on the right, with a round-arched parlor-floor entrance with a brown wood-and-glass door and fanlight. There is a double-window to the left, and two single-windows at the basement level, all with iron grilles. The upper floors have a central, slightly-projecting bowed bay of three windows, framed in brownstone with keys at the edges. The modillioned and dentiled metal band course continues from the neighboring facade, topped by a sloped shingle roof.

No. 127 has its stoop replaced by a ground-level entrance on the left, with a paneled wooden door below a transom. To the right is a very small square opening and a short double-window. The original parlor-floor entrance is replaced by a round-arched window, with a square-headed double-window to the right, both with iron grilles. The facade seamlessly joined with its mirror image to the left, No. 129, with a dentiled stone band course capping the parlor floor. The dog-legged box stoop with metal handrails remains at No. 129, winding down and left from a parlor-floor entrance with a paneled wooden door below a fanlight. The upper floors have a recessed bay above the entrances, with a single-window over each entry; a stone railing fronts the recessed area at the 2nd floor. The non-recessed outer bays have two single-windows and have rounded corners framed by stone quoins. All of the windows have smooth stone lintel courses and sill courses, although a section of the 3rd-floor sill course in the recessed bay of No. 129 has been raised, as has the east bay at No. 127, where a vent has been added. The 3rd floor is topped by a modillioned and dentiled stone cornice, surmounted by a brick parapet with a white metal cornice at the west and a raised extension of the parapet at the east.

No. 131 is a mirror-image of No. 125, with a paneled wooden door, and a screen and shutters over the windows at the parlor floor and 2nd floor.

No. 133 at the west end is a mirror-image of No. 123.

Each building (except for No. 127) also has a basement entry in the side of its stoop. All six houses were at one point divided into apartments, but Nos. 129 & 131 have been re-converted to single-family townhomes.
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Coordinates:   40°47'34"N   73°58'8"W
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