
This one-and-a-half-story brick dwelling delightfully eludes any easy style designation. Though it boasts a mansard roof, it is certainly not French; the narrow windows within the wall dormers with their brackets and spindly columns are neither French nor Eastlake. And the inventive entablatures (more like a piece of furniture than an architectural detail) over the first-floor windows also cannot be pinned down stylistically. The ample grounds and plantings surrounded by a low stone wall and iron fence create an idealistic picture of an early 1870s “Victorian” residence. This house is similar in design to the one at 1325 Eighth Avenue. These two houses