The 1899 Henry Schwarzwalder House - 24 West 76th Street

Real estate developer James Carlew erected five sumptuous, 25-foot-wide townhouses on West 76th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue in 1898-99. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel, each of the residences cost Carlew $40,000 each to construct, or about $1.6 million in 2026 terms. Faced in limestone, 24 West 76th Street was, like the others, four stories tall above an English basement.…