203 Spring Street (New York City, New York)

 apartment building, 1903_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

6-story Renaissance-revival apartment building completed in 1903. Designed by Horenberger & Straub as a tenement, it is clad in red brick, except for the top floor, which is faced in rusticated beige stone. There is a detailed cast-iron band-course between the 2nd & 3rd floors, and two stone piers rising from here to the top of the 5th floor, where they are topped with Ionic capitals. The 2nd floor has square-headed windows with full stone enframements. The central bays of the 3rd-5th floors, framed by the piers, have splayed stone lintels with keystones. The outer bays have stone enframements with triangular pediments. The top floor windows also have splayed lintels with keystones. An ornate wrought-iron fire escape runs down the center of the facade, and the building is crowned by a bracketed metal roof cornice with modillions and dentils.

There facade details are carried over the the eastern face along Sullivan Street, but without the stone piers, and with two columns of smaller, narrow windows just inside of each outer bay. The cast-iron and brick storefront is painted dark green. The front half of the western wall in plain concrete, with a large modern advertisement on the upper portion. The rear half is clad in reddish brick up to the top floor, which is smooth beige concrete. Two columns of segmental-arched windows (one large, one small) pierce the brick of the rear half of this wall. The building has 17 apartments on the upper floors and three businesses at ground level: the Soho Room bar, Hair Box salon, and Tasty D-Lite ice cream.