335 West 29th Street

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4-story (plus raised basement) Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1847 as a townhouse. Designed by William Torrey and Cyrus Mason as part of their Lamartine Place development, it was altered in 1892 by C. Powell Karr, when the stoop was removed and replaced by a ground-level entrance, ornament removed, and the roof parapet raised. The facade is clad in red-painted brick above a red-painted stone basement level. The entrance on the right is down a couple steps from the sidewalk, with a glass door in a grey granite surround. To the left are two basement windows with iron grilles.

The upper floors originally had three bays of single-windows, but the middle bay has been infilled with brick. The bays are separated by pilasters that extend from the 1st to the 3rd floors, topped by a central blind arch flanked by two round-arched windows on the top floor. A black iron fire escape is shared by the neighboring building to the east, spanning across the top three floors; the landing are narrower across the western two bays. The facade is crowned by a green metal roof cornice with brackets, dentils, and a frieze of foliate ornament. The building now contains rental apartments.