Royal Building

 apartment building, 1904_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

16-story Beaux-arts residential building completed in 1904 as an office building, Designed by Bruce Price for the Royal Baking Power Company, it was renovated in 2001 into a residence hall for Pace University, and then converted to apartments in 2011, with 30 units. Its two facades have a 2-story base of rusticated stone, with bays (five bays on William Street, and three on Fulton) articulated by double-height round-arches. The two end bays on William Street, and the left bay on Fulton have entrance framed by stone surrounds, with scrolled brackets supporting entablatures. The two corner bays serve as entrance to the Fulton Street subway station, with the far bay on William Street serving as the main building entrance. The center bays have modernized storefronts.

The 3rd floor is transitional, with rusticated stone piers, and paired windows in each bay framed by stone surrounds. Projecting cornices run above and below this floor. The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick with horizontal grooved banding. The windows are also grouped in pairs, with small stone sills. Another pair of cornices brackets the 12th floor, which transitions into the top section. The piers on the next three floors are smooth limestone, with stone spandrels and double-windows. Above another cornice is a short attic floor topped by a dark-grey metal parapet. The ground floor is occupied by New Jubilee News Smoke Shop, and Oren's Daily Roast Coffee.