47 Irving Place (New York City, New York) | townhouse

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3-story (plus raised basement) Greek-revival townhouse completed in 1843 as the middle house in a row of three. Designed by builder Peter P. Voorhis, it's original owner was John S. Seal. The private residence was converted to a boarding house in 1915, and into apartments in 1930. It currently is configured as a 2-family townhouse.

The facade is clad in red brick above a brownstone basement. A stoop on the right has iron handrails and leads up to a parlor-floor entrance with white wood-and-glass double-doors below a dentiled cornice. There are two tall parlor-floor windows to the left, with two basement windows below them. The upper floors have three bays of single-windows with brownstone sills and brown metal lintels. The facade is crowned by a black metal dentiled roof cornice.

In 1885 as rear extension was designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, and the top floor's windows were slightly enlarged. The window sills and window lintels at 2nd and 3rd floors were resurfaced; and the original bracketed and dentilled roof cornice was removed and replaced with simple roof cornice that remains today.

The house was sold to window sills Joseph Gall in 1881. Subsequent owners were Eliphalet Nott and Annie Schenk Anable in 1895, Mark and Martha Fishel in 1903, and Ekko and Elise Sollman in 1910.