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13 South William Street (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / South William Street, 13
 apartment building, 1830s construction

3-story neo-Dutch Renaissance residential building completed in 1839 as a 5-story store-and-loft building. It was first occupied by merchants Joseph L. Moore & Company. Amos F. Eno purchased the building in 1903 when it was largely vacant. To transform the building into offices, Eno hired architect C.P.H. Gilbert, who altered the building completely, removing two stories, raising the 3rd story, and creating two new facades, with the South William facade as the principal entrance. The nearly identical facades of No. 13 South William Street/57 Stone Street, articulated in the neo-Dutch Renaissance style and clad in limestone-trimmed honey-colored Roman brick, survive largely intact. On the approximately 16-foot-wide South William Street facade, banded piers and a limestone cornice at the first floor date to this alteration, though the shopfront infill is not historic. At each of the upper stories, a large opening, framed by a keyed limestone surround, contains wood mullions which define a tripartite window. At the 2nd story are historic multi-paned windows beneath diamond-patterned transoms, and at the 3rd floor are single-pane windows beneath diamond transoms. The facade also features fine decorative ironwork: a 2nd-story railing, two fleur-de-lys tie-rod ends above the second level, and date-of-construction numerals ("1903") above the third story. The stepped gable, coped in stone and rising from scrolled ends, exhibits a keyed bull's-eye window.

The approximately 21-foot-wide Stone Street facade bears many similar details, including its brick facing, but is four windows wide. Each level is spanned by an exposed metal lintel. At the 1-story base, banded with limestone, the lintel rests on slender piers which separate glazed transoms; much of the remainder of the infill at that level is mid-20th century or later. At the 2nd & 3rd floors, the windows have diamond-patterned transoms resembling those facing South William Street. A stone-trimmed bull's-eye window punctures the stepped gable. A new fire escape was added in 1964 to the Stone Street side. The upper floors are now residential, with the ground floor occupied by Royal Wine Merchants.
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Coordinates:   40°42'16"N   74°0'37"W
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