321 Second Avenue (New York City, New York)

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4-story Anglo-Italianate cooperative-apartment building completed in 1852 as a townhouse. By 1868, Thomas Ingham, an iron merchant, and his family occupied 321 Second Avenue and would remain until 1875 when Felix Marx moved in. Marx leased the building in 1881 to G. F. Abraham, who operated it as a boarding house. The building was renovated in 1922 to bachelor apartments, and the original stone frames of the windows were replaced by brick, as well as the 3rd-floor windows shortened. Today there are five apartments in the building.

The facade is clad in red brick above a limestone ground floor, two bays wide. All of the openings are round-arched, except for at the 4th floor, where the windows are segmental-arched. The entrance is in the north bay, with black wood-and-glass double-doors atop a short, 3-step stoop. The windows on the 3rd & 4th floors have bracketed sills, and all the windows on the upper floors have brick surrounds. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with small brackets.