City Hall Building

 apartment building, 1906_construction, housing cooperative

12-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1906 as an office building. Designed by Rowe & Baker, it has a 2-story base and 2-story crown of white stone, with the mid-section clad in buff-colored brick. The base consists of a ground floor that is mostly windowless along Warren Street, with storefronts facing Broadway. The 2nd floor has segmental-arched windows topped by splayed lintels with keystones, except for the outer bay on each facade, which has square-headed windows with large keystones. The base if capped by a stone cornice with modillions, broken by the keystones of the window lintels below. Another stone cornice wraps around the top of the 3rd floor, where the fenestration pattern of paired windows begins. The outer bays here have decorative, carved stone hoods. The rest of the mid-section has simple paired windows. Air conditioning vents have been cut next to each grouping. A broad stone cornice with escutcheons above each window marks the beginning of the crown, which are recessed double-windows with paneled spandrels between the top two floors. The building was converted to residential use in the late 1900s. The ground floor is occupied by a Bank of America branch.