Cluett Building

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150-foot, 11-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1902. Designed by Robert Maynicke as a store-and-loft building, it extends through the block to West 18th Street. Both facades, clad in brick and terra-cotta, have been painted white from the 1st through the 3rd floor, and are treated almost identically above the 2nd story with regularly articulated bays.

The 19th Street facade's 2-story base is divided into four bays by rusticated brick pilasters on polished grey granite bases; the left two pier bases has been replaced recent with polished grey granite panels. The simple limestone pier capitals are adorned with raised circles and egg-and-dart molding. Paired entrances in each end bay are capped by a cast-iron entablature supported on three console brackets, with "Cluett Building" written on the fascia. Two show windows at the ground floor fill the center bays. The show windows are original, with replacement glass, project slightly from the building facade, and have transoms over large window openings. At the 2nd floor paired windows have cast-iron colonnettes as mullions. The transitional 3rd floor is set off by a terra-cotta cornice below and a band course above. The triple windows in the four bays are articulated by molded surrounds. The 4th through 8th floors are rusticated brick with three deeply recessed windows with voussoirs in each bay. The windows of each bay have a single sill and are square headed, except for the 8th-floor windows which have segmental-arches and keystones. Like the 3rd floor, the 9th floor is articulated by cornices and and molded window surrounds. Rising from the 9th-floor cornice are five double-height pilasters separating the 10th and 11th-floor window bays, and brick voussoirs surround the window openings. Keystones over the square-headed 10th-floor windows are flush, projecting keystones are set over the round-headed windows of the 11th floor.

On the 18th Street side the facade is identical above the 2nd floor with the exception of the two center bays, which have paired window openings rather than triple window openings. The ground floor contains two identical entrances in the end bays, which are detailed like those on the 19th Street facade. One large projecting show window is placed in the center bays. The two center bays at the 2nd floor are linked with a composite column, instead of a pier, between the bays.

The western side elevation is clad in brown brick. The roof line is irregular, dropping one story towards the center of the building. Two rows of eight windows with sliding metal shutters, punctuate the southern side of the 10th and 11th floors. Two shingled water towers are visible on the roof above these windows.

The building was named after Cluett Peabody & Company, a shirt manufacturer that moved into the building in 1905. It was converted to condominiums around 2000. The ground floor is occupied by Complete Body 19th Street Gym, and Paper Presentation stationery.