City Hall Tower (New York City, New York)

 apartment building, 1900_construction

8-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1900 as an office building, known as the Rogers, Peet & Company Building. Designed by John B. Snook & Sons. An addition was competed in 1909 by Townsend, Steinle & Haskell. The narrower facade facing Broadway is two bay wide, while the elevation facing Warren Street spans seven bays. The ground floor features ornate entrances at both of the facades. They are framed by carved pilasters with intricate capitals, carved ornament above the door, and capped off by a dentiled cornice with a band of circles. A more restrained dentiled cornice tops the rest of the ground floor. The 2nd-3rd floors are clad in stone, with banded rustications on the piers, and cast-iron mullions and spandrels with a Greek-fret pattern separating the windows. Another dentiled cornice caps off this 3-story base.

The upper floors are clad in brown brick, with each bay separated by a narrower brick pier into pairs of windows split by a cast-iron mullion. The spandrels panels are dentiled and have small carved cartouches up to the 6th floor, which is topped by a dentiled stone cornice with a scrolled brackets at each of the intermediate piers. The spandrels between the top two floors have larger carved ornament. Both facades are crowned by a brown dentiled roof cornice.

Rogers, Peet & Company, a well-known retailer of men's and boys' clothing, occupied the building for more than 70 years. It was converted into cooperative apartments with 44 units and renamed City Hall Tower (from 258 Broadway) in 1981, one of the earliest conversions in Tribeca. There is a TD Bank branch on the ground level.