This three-story commercial building with a small two-story building attached
at the rear along West 95th Street was built to house the Lang Furniture Store
and the Lang Funeral Home - quite a common practice in the early 1900's as
the caskets were produced by the cabinet makers.
At the center of the building is a recessed entry with plate glass windows
across the front of the first floor. The building features engaged brick
pilasters with unadorned stone capitals that separate the bays and rise
from the second through the third story. The roof parapet has stone coping
with small peaked battlements at the corners of the building.
The front of the main building has a separate entrance at the east end featuring red bricks
and simple side lights that lead to the third-story that housed a Masonic Hall, complete
with meeting rooms and stage set-off with Corinthian columns.
The rear building has a center entry with a brick basket arch. The second story has eleven
evenly spaced windows across the façade.
The family home of the George C. Lang family stands on West Boulevard, just
north of Western Avenue.
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