By Herbert J. Githens
DIRECTION: Cross Mercer from 93 Mercer (south side) to the
opposite sidewalk (north side), walking back
toward Barrow. Stop in front of the ten similar
houses with limestone fronts.
These ten limestone-fronted townhouses were built
speculatively before 1873 in the Italianate style. Notice
the heavy balustrade, made up of large cast-iron components,
on the stoop. The tall double doors replace the single door
of the Greek Revival period, and glass panels in the doors
replace the sidelights and transom. The basement level is
set off from the upper floors by a stone treatment called
rustication, in which the wide joints of the stone blocks are
very pronounced at the lowest floor. Brackets are used
extensively in the cornice and even support the sills of
the windows. Here the facades are remarkably well preserved,
owing to the limestone, a better selection of veneer than the
more typical late-nineteenth-century brownstone.
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