2203–2203-1/2 St. James Place
1878, Attributed to Frank Furness

This pair of narrow houses, shoehorned into one-and-a-half lots, is a Victorian variation on Gothic forms. Each has a stone-face ground floor with a center entrance with hood moldings. The door of 2203 is flanked by stained glass windows, while 2203-1/2 has decorative panels with precisely carved flowering plants framed by crisp geometrical borders. On the second floor of each, a rectangular wooden bay window is supported on paired brackets. The tall narrow windows are framed by pilasters with inset panels of diagonally laid boards. The gables of the matching mansards are shaped, as if responding to the square frames of the windows jutting up from below.

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