Frasch Building Condominiums

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15-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1921 as an office building. Designed by Henry Otis Chapman for Herman Frasch (1851–1914), the founder and first president of the Union Sulphur Company, the building occupied a narrow site at the corner of West and Rector Streets. The 3-story base (plus basement) is clad in rusticated limestone. The Rector Street facade has five main bays, with one smaller bay on the east. A very deeply recessed entrance is located in the easternmost main bay, up a short set of steps. Wide piers separate the bays, which have large metal and glass storefronts at the 1st floor. The 2nd floor has triple windows divided by metal mullions, topped by splayed limestone blocks with scrolled keystones. A simple stone cornice runs above the keystones. In the center of the paneled stone spandrels between the two lower floors are round light fixtures. The third floor has two windows in each bay, and is topped by a more detailed cornice. The West street side of the base has a single wider bay, with another entrance below an entablature, and three windows on the 3rd floor. The eastern elevation is clad in stone without the rustications, and has a single, smaller window piercing the 3rd floor.

The mid-section is clad in brown brick (buff-colored on the eastern elevation), with stone enframements around the paired windows of the 4th floor (except for the single bay at the east end of the north facade). The other floors have simple stone sills. Again, the West Street side has three windows per floor, and the east elevation has a single column of small windows.

The 11th-13th floors are clad in stone on the north and west elevations, above a broad cornice. On the 12th & 13th floors the paired windows are replaced by triple windows separated by metal mullions, and there are projecting stone piers with decorative capitals between the bays. The 14th floor is again clad in brown brick, and set off by cornices above and below. A set-back attic story tops the building. It was was converted to condominiums in 2000 by Hustvedt-Cutler. The ground floor is occupied by West Street Wine & Spirits.