607 East 11th Street | Block : 394 | Lot #65

Building Date : 1887
Original Use : Residential

Original Owner : Frederick Heerlein
Original Architect : Julius Kastner

Description & Building Alterations

Dating from 1887, this building designed by Julius Kastner housed four families per floor for a total of 20 families. The New-Law tenement uses the Queen Anne style. The entrance would have been a raised stoop, but the entrance details remain under a layer of paint. Other than that paint, little has been changed as this level was always intended to be apartments and not shops.

The Queen Anne style is expressed in the curving vines of the spandrel panels on the fifth floor and the tripartite cornice with pendill-like details on each bracket, the dimensional beltcourse at the third and fifth floor window lintels and between the third and fourth floors. The more geometric details of the lintels, spandrel panels on the third floor and the projecting brick below the central portion of the cornice all are indicative of the Eastlake movement, which is sometimes thought of as a decorative movement within the Queen Anne style.

Block : 394 / Lot : 065 / Building Date : 1887 / Original Owner : Frederick Heerlein / Original Use : Residential / Original Architect : Julius Kastner

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