230 East 14th Street | Block : 469 | Lot #23

Description & Building Alterations

Built as one of a row of New-Law tenements in 1902, 230 East 14th Street was designed by Sass & Smallheiser and housed 22 families over ground-floor shops. The brick building with terra-cotta details employs the Renaissance Revival style. The outer-bay, second floor windows are bow windows surrounded by detailed ionic columns and topped with a fluted frieze. The four recessed bays on the second floor have arched enframements with exaggerated keystones. The second floor also has recessed beltcourses of white brick, a popular feature of Renaissance Revival tenement design. The windows on the third through fifth floors have either splayed lintels or full enframements all in classically inspired motifs and the fourth floor has windows are topped with curved pediments. The sixth floor, like the second, has recessed beltcourses in white brick. The pressed-metal cornice follows the curve of the projecting bays and acts as a lintel for the sixth floor windows. This building and 236 East 14th Street have identical details and are framed by 226 and 238 East 14th Street.