278 & 280 West 25th Street (New York City, New York)

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A pair of mirror-image 4/5-story residential buildings originally completed as 3-story (plus raised basements) row houses in the 1860s. No. 280 remains a single-family home (with a new 5th floor added on top), while No. 278 has been split into two units. Both are clad in brick (painted a brighter red shade at No. 278) with brownstone basement levels, which now serve as the ground floor, since the stoops and parlor-floor entrances have been removed. The new, ground-level entrances at next to each other, at the middle, with black paneled wooden doors. To the left, No. 278 has two low windows at the former basement level, while No. 280 has no openings next to its door.

The former parlor-floor entrances are replaced by modern windows, of a differing style at each building. Outside of these are two bays of single-windows with flat stone lintels (and iron grilles at No. 278, where these windows are taller). The upper floors have three bays of single-windows at both buildings, also with brownstone sills and flat stone lintels, painted white at No. 278. The facades are crowned by a pair of matching metal roof cornices (painted white and black, respectively) with small console brackets and panels. The 5th-floor addition to No. 280 is set above the cornice, and designed in a modern style, faced in grey metal panels, with a slightly sloping section and two narrow windows, one set horizontally and the other vertically.

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