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135-139 West 95th Street (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 135-139
 rowhouse, apartment building

A row of three 3-story (plus raised basements) residential buildings completed together in 1887. Designed by William J. Merritt, the western two are mirror-images of each other, while the eastern house is sharply contrasting.

No. 135 at the east end is clad in brownstone painted dark-red with white-painted trim, and a white-painted, rough-faced ground floor. The stoop has been replaced by a ground-level entrance with a black wood-and-glass door. A double-window to the left has a white metal mullion and iron grille. The original parlor-floor entrance is replaced by a double-window, with another matching one to the left. The parlor floor is banded with white, rough-faced stone. The upper floors have slightly-projecting, gently bowed bays of three windows, the middle of one each having been raised to fit an air-conditioning vent below it. A broad band of white stone separates the top two floors, and the facade is crowned by a black metal cornice with two rows of dentils, surmounted by a conical slate roof.

No. 137 is clad in pale-red brick on the upper floors, with warm-colored stone around the window bays. The parlor floor and basement are clad in the same stone, rough-faced below the basement double-window, and with rough-faced banding on the parlor floor. A stoop on the left leads up to the entrance, with a white wooded door, sidelight, and transom. To the right is a double-window, both it and the basement window have iron grilles. The upper floors are set off by a stone cornice and have a centered bay of double-windows is stone surrounds, with keys at the edges. A high stone gable at the top breaks the dentiled black metal roof cornice and the sloped slate roof above.

No. 139 at the west end is a mirror-image of No. 137, with blue wood-and-glass double-doors below a transom.
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Coordinates:   40°47'34"N   73°58'9"W
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