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This handsome, mid-block, red-brick apartment building at 38 West 9th Street was erected in 1882 and designed by Ralph S. Townsend in Queen Anne style for Sophia R. C. Furniss. The Portsmouth has 53 apartments, fireplaces, and a prime central location off Lower Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village, with one of the most distinguished entrances on one of the city's loveliest blocks.
The Portsmouth is a six story, 53 apartment co-op at 38 West 9th Street in Greenwich Village. Built in 1882 for Sophia R. C. Furniss, the mid-block apartment house was designed in the Queen Anne style by Ralph S. Townsend and became a co-op in 1973.
The red brick façade has terra cotta spandrels, toothed brickwork, cast iron entrance porches and a bracketed cornice with an asymmetrically placed triangular pediment. Townsend designed the adjoining Hampshire the following year, and the closely related buildings form part of the Greenwich Village Historic District.
Many apartments retain 10 foot or higher ceilings, oversized windows, hardwood floors, paneled pocket doors and original fireplace mantels; multiple fireplaces recur in the larger layouts. Windowed kitchens, formal dining rooms and leafy West 9th Street exposures also appear repeatedly. A parlor level maisonette is arranged as a duplex with rooms extending below the principal floor and a separate entrance.
The building has a full time doorman, resident storage, a laundry room, bicycle storage and attended common areas. Pets are allowed, and in-unit washers and dryers may be installed with board approval. The address is just west of Lower Fifth Avenue, with Washington Square Park several blocks south and Jefferson Market Garden to the west.
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