And to allay the fears of brownstone-dwellers: A cornice is not a parapet, so most brownstones don’t actually have parapets. “If a wall extends up from the cornice, it would be a parapet ...

elaborate cornices, and the expected incised motifs. No. 877 was completed by at least April of 1885, when it and its neighbors on either side were advertised by Magilligan as “first class brownstone ...