384 Third Avenue (New York City, New York)

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4-story Neo-Victorian residential building originally completed in the 1860s as a commercial building. In the 1870s it houses a carpet business, and then the E. O. Carrington Storage Warehouse. In 1894 it was replaced by the new Madison Square Church House. The Madison Square Presbyterian Church, organized in 1853, had outgrown a previous church house a few blocks north, a charitable organization run by the church. This building was also quickly outgrown, and another church house built farther north in 1900. 384 Third Avenue was converted to a store at ground level with residential space above, but the Carrington carpeting business was back here by 1922. As early as 1932 brothers Louis and Joseph Weinstock opened their hardware store in the building. Weinstock Brothers would be a neighborhood fixture throughout most of the century—well into the 1980s. In 2008 a conversion of the upper floor was initiated which, when completed, resulted in one upscale apartment per floor.

The facade is clad in red brick with white-painted stone and cast-iron trim, above ground-floor storefront framed by cast-iron piers now painted light-grey. The residential entrance is at the north end, with a glass door, sidelight, and transom. The upper floors have three bays of single-windows with bracketed stone sills and elaborate arched, cast-iron, hooded lintels featuring keystones. At the 4th floor pointed piers add dimension between the windows, springing from small stone bases. They extend up to the prominent roof cornice, which has modillions, and slightly-projecting center portion, and a single small antefix crowning it. The ground floor is occupied by Tara Rose cocktail bar.