131 Sullivan Street

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5-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1897. Designed by Stephenson & Greene as a tenement, it has a rusticated ground floor of beige brick, topped by wide stone cornice. The entrance on Sullivan Street is framed by a pair of Ionic columns, with large brackets supporting the base of the fire escape that runs down the center of the facade. The upper floors are clad in lighter buff-colored brick, with quoins of the same brick as the ground floor at the corners. There are four wide windows in the center of each floor, with three narrower ones on either end. On the 3rd & 4th floors, these three window bays are connected by dentiled sill courses. A beige metal fire escape runs down the center two bays.

The narrower Prince Street facade has a single column of windows in the center and paired windows on either side, and also has a beige metal fire escape. All of the windows have splayed brick lintels with keystones. There is a thin stone band course across the top of the 4th floor, and a projecting corbelled sills connecting each of the outer windows on both facades. The building is crowned by a tan modillioned and dentiled roof cornice. The ground floor is occupied by The Dutch bar.