90 Fifth Avenue

 office building, 1903_construction

152-foot, 11-story Beaux-Arts/Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1903. Designed by Robert Maynicke, it is clad in limestone with a 2-story base. The base and transitional 3rd floor are painted grey. Both facades are divided into five bays of three windows each by rusticated piers with grey polished granite bases and ornamented capitals. There are black cast-iron pliasters dividing the 2nd-floor windows and paneled spandrels. The base is capped by a dentiled cornice.

The 3rd floor has a simple stone cornice above it. The windows on the upper floors have flat stone lintels and small projecting sills. The 3-story crown is set off by a dentiled cornic. 2-story segmental-arches at the 9th-10th floors encompass triangular pediments above the center windows of the 9th floor in each bay, and have carved stone ornament at the top of each arch and at each pier between the arches. The top floors has additional stone ornament above the center window of each bay. A black projecting roof cornice tops both facades, with modillions and dentils.

The building's earliest occupants were mostly clothing manufacturers. Some tenants in the early 1900s were the Bond Trouser Company, Superior Fashion Clothing Company, Gillman Brothers Clothing Firm, Mid-West Furniture Company, and Marks Artificial Limb Company. Later, the building was almost entirely occupied by Forbes, until it was sold in 2013. The ground floor is occupied by a TD Bank branch, and a Republic Bank branch.