160 First Avenue | Block : 437 | Lot #7

Building Date : 1898
Original Use : Residential/Commercial

Original Owner : Tobias Krakouer
Original Architect : George Frederick Pelham

Description & Building Alterations

Originally built in 1898, this six-story brick dumbbell tenement building on 160 First Avenue was built in the same project as 156 and 158 First Avenue. It served and continues to serve as space for a store and apartments.

The three buildings share an identical facade. No. 160 features bracketed cornice with decorative frieze, round-arched window openings with brick lintels and key stones at third and sixth stories, slightly projecting brick piers through fifth and sixth stories, ornamented panels, elaborate bracketed window lintels with molding or triangular pediments at second and fourth stories, beltcourses. There is metal pilasters with attached columns flanking the main entry, capped by a molded entablature.

Block : 437 / Lot : 007 / Building Date : 1898 / Original Owner : Tobias Krakouer / Original Use : Residential/Commercial / Original Architect : George Frederick Pelham

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