ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS
The restoration of 378 West End Avenue included repairing and replacing elaborate terra cotta cresting at the top of the building , a zinc sundial on the south wall , and ornate brickwork .
floors aligned with the new ones without any impact to the historic facades .
The design is inspired by the best of the neighborhood ’ s architectural history including Dutchstyle row houses , palazzo type apartment buildings and more traditional set-back apartment towers . In this case the church takes a starring role ; its strongly 17th century Dutch architectural style of stepped gables was the direct inspiration for 378 West End Avenue ’ s south facade stepped profile , with generous windows and terraces created by the building ’ s setbacks .
The restoration of 378 West End Avenue included repairing and replacing elaborate terra cotta cresting at the top of the building , a zinc sundial on the south wall , and ornate brickwork .
The building rises up from a garden space along West End Avenue , which commemorates the 2015 Healing Turtle Island reconciliation between two groups in seventeenth-century Manhattan : the Collegiate Churches and the indigenous Lenape who inhabited the region before European colonization .
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