Greeley Square Building

 office building, skyscraper, 1927_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

335-foot, 25-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1927. Designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag, it is clad in tan brick above a 4-story limestone base. Both the main south and east facades are five bays wide, with narrower end bays. The main entrance is near the western end of the 31st Street facade, with modern metal-and-glass doors set in a beveled and carved stone frame. On either side are metal service doors, and the eastern end has a continuation of the storefronts lining the east facade. A small cornice caps the ground floor.

The 2nd-4th floors have rope moldings at the edges of the piers, with stylized capitals at the top. The center bays have tripartite windows, and the end bays double-windows, each separated by narrow Corinthian columns and further subdivided into multiple panes by black iron framing. The stone spandrels have a sort of diagonal feathered pattern, and the base is topped by an arcaded cornice. Small ram's heads decorate the area above each pier.

The upper floors have three windows in the center bays and paired windows in the end bays. The 5th floor has patterned brickwork at the piers, and a brick string course across the top. A wider, corbelled string course runs above the 14th floor. The windows at the 16th floor are topped by projecting, stone round-arches carried on brick corbels, and there are smaller, paired, corbelled brick arches between the bays. The spandrels between the 15th & 16th floors decorative stone diamond shapes. A stone coping caps the 16th floor, beginning a series of setbacks.

Each setback is capped by stone coping above various styles of brick corbelling. These occur at the 18th, 20th, 23rd & 25th floors. Non-projecting stone round-arched top the windows at the 18th & 25th floors. Beginning above the 18th floor, the southeast corner is chamfered, with a bay of double-windows, and the distal half of both facades is further set back, connected by a narrower chamfered corner, one window wide. A mechanical penthouse rises above the 25th floor, culminating in a square tower with four chamfered corners. This tower is lined with projecting brick piers and topped by a corbelled stone cornice and gently sloping, pointed metal roof.

The exposed part of the north elevation has two bays of paired windows, with setbacks at the same levels as the other facades. The west elevation also has two bays of paired windows, located near the front. The ground floor is occupied by a Starbucks coffee, Fifty Lan bubble tea, Epic wine & spirits, and Mane Beauty.