Edward D. Smith House

 townhouse, 1850s construction, Italianate style (architecture)

4-story (plus raised basement) Italianate residential building completed in 1853 as a townhouse for the Reverend Edward D. Smith. It is clad in red brick above a rusticated brownstone basement. A high brownstone stoop on the right leads up to the most distinguishing feature, the grand arched doorway. It has wood-and-glass double-doors and a fanlight, and an imposing cornice slab carried on stuccoed console brackets crowns the entryway. The two tall parlor-floor windows to the left have iron grilles over their bases, and below are two short basement windows also with iron grilles. There is a basement entry in the side of the stoop.

The upper floors have three bays of single-windows, shorter at each floor. The windows have corbelled stone sills and lintels with cornices. The building is crowned by a bracketed black metal roof cornice, and a metal railing surrounding a new rooftop deck.

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