234 East 53rd Street

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3-story Italianate residential building completed around the 1870s as a townhouse. It is clad in red-painted brick above a rusticated brownstone English basement and stoop. The high stoop leads to a parlor-floor entrance at the left, with black wood-and-glass doors and a fanlight set under a round-arch and framed by paneled brownstone pilasters with scrolled brackets supporting a rounded pediment. The two basement windows are segmental-arched, as are the very tall, multi-pane windows to the right of the entrance, which are topped by rounded brownstone lintels.

The upper floors have three bays of single-windows with brownstone sills and arched lintels. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with console brackets, dentils, and panels.