714-720 Tenth Avenue

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A row of four matching 5-story Italianate residential buildings completed together in 1872. The south building is clad in red brick, while the northern three have been stuccoed over, painted tan at No. 716, and white at Nos. 718 & 720. There are metal-and-glass storefronts at the ground floors (with brick at the bases at Nos. 714 & 716). The ground floors are framed by fluted and paneled cast-iron pilasters. The residential entrances are to the north of each storefront, except at No. 714, which has its entrance on the south facade on 49th Street (also using the address of 467 West 49th).

The upper floors each have three bays of single-windows with bracketed sills and small cornices (painted red at No. 714, tan at No. 716, and black at Nos. 718 & 720). The south edge of No. 714 and the north end of No. 720 have stone quoins (painted red and white respectively). A black metal fire escape runs down No. 716, and all four facades are crowned by black metal roof cornices with paired brackets, dentils, and panels; they are linked at the center by a triangular pediment that spans a portion of the middle two.

On the south facade of No. 714 the ground-floor storefront has a short return at the west end. The rest of the ground floor is brick, painted light-grey, with a dark-grey stone water table. Two former window openings near the middle have been filled-in (although their cornices remain), while the east end has the residential entrance next to a narrow window. It has a wood, glass, and wrought-iron door and transom framed by narrow iron pilasters with acanthus-leaf brackets carrying a triangular pediment. The upper floors have two single-windows in the middle and another at each end, with similar sills and cornices. A fire escape runs down the middle bays, and the south facade is crowned by an extension of the roof cornice.

There is a small 1-story extension at the rear of the buildings, clad in black-painted brick on the south facade framing a wood-and-glass storefront with a red-brick base and a recessed wooden door. This section is capped by a simple black metal cornice. The ground floors are occupied by Adriatic Wine & Liquor, and Brite Dental Spa.