258 West 17th Street

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5-story residential building completed in 1889 for William C. Burne. The facade, designed by John C. Burne (possibly a relative), is clad in yellow brick with brownstone trim, five bays wide. The central entrance is atop a small stoop, framed by projecting pilasters supporting an entablature with foliate carvings and a dentiled cornice. The foliate carvings and dentiled cornice continue on either side. The tall, rectangular windows have brownstone sills courses with dentils below, and a broad brownstone band above. Between the windows, the walls are ornamented by egg-and-dart string courses near the base of the windows, carved rectangular panels, and foliate bands near the tops of the windows.

At the upper floors the piers around the outer bays are projected forward; at the 5th floor they each have three vertical grooves and Corinthian capitals. Each floor has brownstone sill courses and lintel courses connecting the windows. There are dentils below the sill courses, and carved patterns below the lintels. The spandrels between the 2nd-3rd and 3rd-4th floors are carved panels - long panels of rings across the middle bays and the outer bays between the 3rd-4th floor, and foliate carving at the outer bays between the 2nd-3rd floors.

The top floor has round-arched windows in the middle bays, which are encompasses by a large brick arch with an enormous keystone and carving within the arch, highlighted by a Roman head below the keystones. There are two rosettes outside the arch, and corbelled panels at the outer bays.

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