On a visit to the property last week, the grass was freshly mowed, but the garden was badly in need of a trim, and the facade wanted a scrubbing.
Its footprint is small, its black-painted facade trim and elegant, with a Dutch-style stepped roof, a fire-engine-red door and a matching flower box hung below white-painted windows.
While the house was quiet, Mr. Mills offered to give a visitor a tour, starting with the signature Pepto-Bismol-pink trim on the facade and moving inside to a front room with handsome woodwork on the ceiling, one of the few intact original details.
If you want to describe a house, you're probably going to need to know some architecture terms: "eaves," "columns," "facade," "trim," "jamb," and the list goes on.
The modern Moneo annex will allow the cloister to peek out from a brick-and-granite facade, trimmed with brass.
The idiosyncrasy of the 1880s returned in 1925, with the peculiar apartment house at 251. Henry Herts designed it as a co-op, with a rough stucco facade trimmed in brick.
The concept was simplified, but of the same mold — a high first floor and red-brick facade, trimmed with brownstone and rising to a stepped gable, with a few finials and other doodads.
The building was designed according to the characteristic Russian model, with seven domes above a dark red brick facade trimmed with limestone and glazed tile in green, blue and yellow.
Pflueger included zigzag patterns in the twin-towered facade trimmed in neon accents, and brought Streamline Moderne stylings to the interior via sweeping curves in steel banister railings as well as Mayan touches in the stepped mirrors.
It is painful to see its straw-colored brick with salmon trim peeling off the facade.
