Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Statuary, Bronzes, the Costly Furniture and Embellishments, Contained in the Mansion of the Late Charles T. Yerkes (Louis S. Owsley, Executor): To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale by Charles C. Burlingham, Esq., Receiver Under a Decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, Dated January 22d, 1910
The entrance portico is the chief feature of the Fifth Avenue front. It stands at the head of a ?ight of steps bor dered with a pierced parapet that rises from decorated piers on the sidewalk. Two pairs of columns with richly panelled pilas ters support an entablature which is crowned with a balustrade. The shafts of the columns are practically the only undecoratedparts here, the portico being naturally the place where the greatest amount of exterior ornamentation may be applied.
On the left is a shallow rectangular bay or projection, hardly strong enough to be designated a bay-window, yet a relief to an otherwise fiat wall. It contains three windows in the first and second stories, and is surmounted with a pierced parapet. On the left is a single window, whose ornamental frame is ex tended above with a band of ornament surmounted with a strongly projecting moulding. There are two windows above. A richly decorated string - course or band is carried wholly around the house between the first and second stories, and a moulded string at the base of the third story windows. Here a new feature is introduced in plain pilasters standing at the corners and in the centre. The window scheme is now changed, the three windows of the two lower stories giving way to two windows in the third and fourth; while on the left, instead of two windows as below, there are three. The entablature contains a broad frieze, in which are small circular windows with wreath-like frames, while the crowning members are given well-proportioned projection. A balustrade surrounds and conceals the roof.
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