Jeanne d'Arc Residence (New York City, New York)

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6-story (plus raised basement) residential shelter building completed in 1911. Designed by Daus & Otto, it houses 140 women on a temporary basis. Jeanne d'Arc Residence was founded and incorporated in 1896 by Reverend Theophile Wucher as a temporary home for French girls who were separated from their families. In 1897 it was decided to place the home under the direction of a religious community, and in 1898 the Congregation of Divine Providence accepted stewardship of this ministry to women. The first building of Jeanne d’ Arc could lodge only twelve young women.

The facade is clad in tan brick above a limestone first floor and light-grey granite basement level (painted white at both ends). These end wings were added after the initial construction of the center section. At the center is the main entrance, atop a low stone stoop bisected by a metal handrail, with metal-framed glass double-doors and a transom set in a stone surround with side panels featuring an interlocking circle pattern with floral motif, and a panel on top carved with the words "JEANNE D'ARC HOME", surmounted by a stone shield and scrolls. To either side are two bays of paired windows with a continuous sill course on blocky brackets. The piers around the windows are heavily rusticated into banding. Below, the basement level has the same arrangement of windows, except at the east end where there is a secondary entrance with a black metal door. Black iron fencing encloses the inner half of both ends of the basement level.

The brick upper floors have smaller windows than the base. There is a center bay of paired windows, flanked to either side by a single-window bay, another paired window bay, and three single-windows at each end. The end wings are separated from the middle by narrow grooves, and all the windows have beige stone sills and lintels. Between floors the middle bays have outlined rectangles of dark-brown brick with brick diamond shapes in the centers, and the end sections have simpler outlined panels of beige brick, without the diamonds. There is a small wrought-iron balcony fronting the three paired-window bays at the 3rd floor. The 5th floor has stone shields on the main piers around the window bays.

The 5th floor is crowned by a projecting stone cornice with modillions and dentils (painted black at the middle section), and the 6th floor has 20 single-windows across the facade, spaced farther apart at the end wings. The roof line is marked by another cornice that doesn't project as far and has smaller modillions that interrupt the dentil course instead of running above it. There are no window openings on the side elevations.

In 2024, the building was purchased by Red Apple Group/John Catsimatidis.

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