179 Park Hill Avenue

2 1/2-story rectilinear house faced in brick laid in common bond; symmetrical facade; projecting, pedimented, central pavilion; central entrance set beneath bowed porch supported by Ionic columns; wrought-iron railing on roof of porch; doorway with paneled door, leaded sidelights, and fanlight; brick quoins at ends of building and central pavilion; stone belt course between first and second stories; triplet windows with wide central light and narrow side lights flank entrance; single window in center and double windows to either side on second story; multi-pane upper sash; semicircular window in pediment; bracketed cornice; hip roof with pedimented dormers; one-story porch on south elevation with rusticated brick piers and Ionic columns; tall brick chimney; rubblestone and brick wall with concrete coping and wooden gates around property.

Feature: Garage; one-story, hip-roof, brick garage

Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 742-755, identifies this as the home of stage actor Richard Bennett, father of film actresses Joan Bennett and Constance Bennett.

Bennett House; two-and-one half story, three bay, brick, Colonial Revival style residence; square plan; brick quoining; pedimented, salient central bay with half round window in pediment; centrally-placed semicircular entrance porch with scamozzi columns supporting second-story porch with wrought iron railings; sidelighted entrance with leaded glass transom; double and tripartite six and eight-over-one double hung sash windows with shutters; string course; wide modillioned frieze; hipped roof with gable dormers; brick chimneys; side porch.

This is a 2 1/2 story, 3 bay, Colonial Revival house, featuring a hipped-roof with modillioned cornice, multiple gable-roofed dormers, round entry portico with balustrade above, sidelights, transom with tracing, side porch with balustrade, and back porch addition.

Feature: Garage

Alterations: Back porch addition