257 East 7th Street | Block : 377 | Lot #59

Building Date : 1897
Original Use : Residential

Original Owner : Harry Fischel
Original Architect : Max Miller

Description & Building Alterations

This is a five-story brick residential building constructed with no. 255 in 1897 in a Renaissance Revival style. The cornice consists of heavy brackets on top of a frieze of dentils. Each level alternates between squared and rounded arched lintels with animal keystones, and is also separated by different belt courses, some made of stone and some with patterned brickwork. The entrance is encased in a rounded cast stone arch topped with oversized brackets.

Block : 377 / Lot : 059 / Building Date : 1897 / Original Owner : Harry Fischel / Original Use : Residential / Original Architect : Max Miller

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