Recalling elements of both their John Andrew House at 32 Hereford Street (BB68; 1884) and their Beebe House at 199 Commonwealth Avenue (BB50; 1890), McKim, Mead and White's Cochrane House facade represents an uneasy amalgam, rather than a true synthesis, of their respective Italian Renaissance and Federal idioms. The Adamesque swags of the first-floor window architraves coexist awkwardly with the fifteenth-century round-arched entrance surround. As such disparate influences are easier to segregate within individual rooms, the interior is more successful. While its details are sedulously derived from early-nineteenth-century precedents, the scale of the top-lit cylindrical stair hall exceeds that of even public buildings of the Federal period.