160 Second Avenue | Block : 452 | Lot #1

Building Date : 1892-93
Original Use : Residential/Commercial

Original Owner : T.J. Jenkins
Original Architect : G.M. Walgrove

Description & Building Alterations

A three-and-a-half story house existed on the lot until the present five-story building was completed in 1892-93.

The present building facade features a bracketed cornice with a paneled frieze, brick round arches with tympanums at the fifth story, slightly projecting brick piers with Corinthian capitals from the second to fifth stories, decorated panels and patterned brickwork, and a round-arched main entry set on a portico on the south facade. The existing storefront is not original to the building.

Block : 452 / Lot : 001 / Building Date : 1892-93 / Original Owner : T.J. Jenkins / Original Use : Residential/Commercial / Original Architect : G.M. Walgrove

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