460 West 44th Street (New York City, New York)
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New York City, New York /
West 44th Street, 460
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4-story Italianate commercial building completed around 1870 as a townhouse. It was separated from the row of houses on the eastern side by a wide carriage drive that led to the private stables in the rear. Unlike its neighbors whose parlor floors were entered above high brownstone stoops, the entrance of No. 460 was nearly at street level.
The house was first owned by Henry A. Smith, who built a large wallpaper factory on Tenth Avenue and 42nd Street, just two blocks away from his house. In 1901 it was sold to the Young Women’s Christian Association, and converted to a boarding house, which it remained until the YWCA sold it in 1925.
The facade is clad in brownstone, four bays wide, but almost all of the ornament, such as window lintels, have been shaved off. The complex, black, bracketed cornice and the lovely paneled wooden Victorian entrance doors in the 2nd bay from the west are the sole surviving architectural elements. The Italianate doorway surround was streamlined by the Y. W. C. A. which added an incised cross to the new keystone. The three ground-floor windows have iron grilles, and the roof cornice has brackets, modillions, dentils, and panels.
The east elevation is clad in brick and has a few bays of windows per floor, notably a projecting iron bay at the 3rd floor. The carriage house in the rear is also clad in red brick.
The house was first owned by Henry A. Smith, who built a large wallpaper factory on Tenth Avenue and 42nd Street, just two blocks away from his house. In 1901 it was sold to the Young Women’s Christian Association, and converted to a boarding house, which it remained until the YWCA sold it in 1925.
The facade is clad in brownstone, four bays wide, but almost all of the ornament, such as window lintels, have been shaved off. The complex, black, bracketed cornice and the lovely paneled wooden Victorian entrance doors in the 2nd bay from the west are the sole surviving architectural elements. The Italianate doorway surround was streamlined by the Y. W. C. A. which added an incised cross to the new keystone. The three ground-floor windows have iron grilles, and the roof cornice has brackets, modillions, dentils, and panels.
The east elevation is clad in brick and has a few bays of windows per floor, notably a projecting iron bay at the 3rd floor. The carriage house in the rear is also clad in red brick.
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Coordinates: 40°45'37"N 73°59'38"W
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