355 West 29th Street

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5-story (including raised basement) Renaissance-revival (with Greek-revival elements) residential building completed in 1852 as a townhouse. Designed by William Torrey and Cyrus Mason as part of their Lamartine Place development, it was altered in 1896 by M .V. B. Ferdon when the roof line was raised and the stoop at the right end was removed and replaced by a ground-level entrance. The facade is clad in red-painted brick with white-painted stone trim. There are four bays, with the east bay in line with the rest of the row to the east; the other bays project out, with the 2nd bay sideways to face east, and the 3rd bay angled.

The new ground-floor entrance has a glass door in a black metal frame. The upper floors at this bay have single-windows, and there is single-windows in each of the other bays as well. Molded stone bands cross the facade at each floor, and the ground-floor windows have black iron grilles and egg-and-dart details at the tops. There are foliate panels at each bay between the 1st & 2nd floors, and between the 2nd & 3rd. The former parlor floor (now the 2nd) has bracketed, molded stone lintels with segmentally-arched crown topped by a guilloche band and molded stone cornice.

There is a foliate stone panel below each window at the 3rd level followed by a molded stone string course that runs the width of the building at each level; the 4th floor lintels feature egg-and-dart detail above window-wide friezes with molded stone lintels; a dogtooth course runs below the sills and at the lintels of the 3rd and 4th floors, with panels of dogtooth brickwork just below the roof cornice. The facade is crowned by an angled, white metal roof cornice with brackets, dentils, and a frieze with floral ornament. The building now contains rental apartments.