Altair 20

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135-foot, 11-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1906. Designed by Lafayette A. Goldstone as a 9-story store-and-loft building, it is clad in light brick with stone trim. The brick is coursed to give the effect of rusticated stone. The facade is organized in three major bays, and each bay has three window openings with stone sills and keystones. The ground floor has three entrances, and two projecting storefronts with rounded corners and rounded metal roofs. Oval medallions highlight the piers at the 2nd floor, which is surmounted by a stone cornice with scrolled brackets and scalloped acroteria. Stone brackets, which once supported a cornice above the 7th floor, have been partially removed. Above the 9th floor, a stuccoed parapet wall remains where a cornice was located.

In 2005, it was renovated by Avinash K. Malhotra Architects into condominiums, and two floors were added to the existing 9-story building to create penthouses. The ground floor is occupied by the DXV American Standard bathroom showroom.