This is a beautiful limestone (?) building on MacDonough, just around the corner from Restoration Plaza. The huge windows are to die for (I don’t often see such large windows on older properties), and although you can’t see it in this picture, I also like the recessed entranceway that angles as you approach the front door. The details around the windows are really sweet.
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Actually this setup (two wings on a courtyard) reminds me of a lot of the buildings in Washington Heights and the Bronx. My great-grandmother had a top floor apt like this in Belmont that was recessed from the rest of the floors, so she had a garden on the roof.
I live one block over and I never notice the windows on this one; You are right they are very cool. Macdonough in generally is a very pretty and architecturally diverse street.
Jeremy, you know, I hadn’t thought of it, but this is quite like some of the buildings I use to notice uptown around Fort Tryon Park! I remember that I did see several of these two-sided buildings up there. Good call on that one.
Anon, I think MacDonough is a great block too. I know I must look like a tourist when I’m over there, because I spend more time looking up at each of the buildings and trying to see their exquisite details.
Yeah, it’s an attractive building style if done right. The Bronx is packed with awesome example of this.