120 West 12th Street

> This extraordinary and rare 1848 23-foot, 4½-story beauty with large private south garden is located on a charming tree-lined side street in the heart of the Greenwich Village Historic District. > The impressive restored Landmark façade of brick and rusticated-brownstone has a classic pilaster-framed doorway, full-length wooden parlor windows with restoration glass, a high stone stoop and ornamental wrought iron railings with fret motifs and other Greek-inspired designs. > Elegant original period interiors are in pristine original condition and retain much of their original layout and all the hallmark characteristics of the late Greek Revival style, with turn-of-the century Arts and Crafts influences in the extension addition of 1897 and roof-top studio of 1923. > On the parlor floor, outstanding Greek Revival features include the eared door and window frames with paneled doors and tripartite pocket shutters; wide openings between the two front rooms, flanked by Corinthian-style capitals on massive pilasters with paneled pocket doors; bold curvaceous plaster cornice and large ceiling rosettes of acanthus leaves and roses in a transitional Greco-Italianate style; handsome buff-veined black marble Gothic Revival fireplaces with slightly pointed arches fitted with Rococo-style cast-iron fire grates; and period flooring revealed beneath several later layers. > Similar original elements on a more modest scale are also found on the garden and bedroom levels. > Converted in the 20th-century to five floor-through apartments, it is now being delivered vacant, with approved plans for re-conversion to a single-family residence. > The kitchen, bathrooms and all the mechanicals need replacement with the exception of the 2000 Weil-McLain gas-fired boiler and 6 fireplace linings, which are of heavy-duty metal with "bell-fire" units, an extremely efficient smokeless 18th-C.design.