440-446 West 44th Street (New York City, New York)

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A row of four 3-story (plus raised basements) Italianate residential buildings completed together in 1863. They are clad in red-painted brick above brownstone basement levels. Except for No. 442, each has a high stoop on the right, with black iron handrails, leading up to a parlor-floor entrance. To the left of the stoops are two basement windows in segmental-arched openings, with iron grilles.

No. 440 at the east end has a recessed entry with a paneled, black wooden door and a transom, with black paneled sideboards. The doorway is set in a beveled brownstone surround with a cornice and peaked lintel on top. To the left are two tall parlor-floor windows with brownstone cornices. The upper floors have three bays of shorter single-windows with brackets brownstone sills and smaller brownstone cornices.

No. 442 has had its stoop removed and replaced by a ground-level entrance. The ground floor is raised higher, and the newer entrance has a wooden door in a simple stone surround, beveled at the inner edge. To two square-headed windows to the left have iron grilles. The upper floors have three bays of single-windows with flat brownstone sills and lintels, including a replacement of the original parlor-floor entrance. A shallow, iron railing runs across the base of the 2nd floor.

No. 444 resembles No. 440 except the entrance has a brown wooden door and sidelight, the surround is smooth, and the windows have had the brackets removed from the sills, and the cornices from the window lintels.

No. 446 at the west end is also similar, but with a lightly rusticated basement, wood-and-glass double-doors, the entry surround retaining its cornice and lintel, and the trim at the windows being painted black. There are also black iron decorative screens at the bases of the parlor-floor windows.

The roof cornice has been removed from No. 442, but remains at the other three, painted black. Each has four console brackets and panels with foliate carved designs.