Springs Building

 office building, commercial building

226-foot, 19-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1927. Designed by Walter M. Mason, it is clad in limestone, with rusticated end bays. The ground floor has round-arched entrances at both ends. The banded limestone piers rest on grey granite bases, and there are two large, projecting flagpoles mounted on either side of the entrances. Additionally, the main entrance at the east bay is flanked by a pair of modern lanterns just below the flagpoles, and the service entrance at the west bay has one, on the west side. The service entrance is recessed under the arch, with two narrow, grey metal double-doors, and a wider, angled grey metal door to the left, topped by a large metal vent in the white brick rear wall of the entry. The main entrance at the east has glass revolving doors and a glass fanlight below the arch, all framed in shiny stainless-steel. The middle section between the two end bays is filled by storefronts consisting of four projecting, half-octagonal display-windows with stone bases and stainless-steel framing, interspersed with five recessed glass doors. A stainless-steel band covers the length of the storefronts, with the two entrances flanking the center one having stainless-steel round-arches with glass inflll, slightly shorter than the stone arches at the end bays. There are two metal vents above the ends of the storefront section, with further glass infill between them and around the steel arches. The middle section is capped by a steel band with four white glass roundels separating white lettering reading "THE EXCHANGE" in the center, and "15 WEST" to the sides.

At the 2nd floor the end bays have squared tripartite windows with stone sills and splayed lintels. The middle section is slightly recessed, and has three wider tripartite windows flanked by single-windows. The base is capped at the middle section by a stone balustrade framing a center bay with a stone pediment inscribed with "SPRINGS BUILDING", flanked by pedestals bearing carved wreaths; the pedestals are topped by urns, and the point of the peaked pediment has a crowning seashell.

Across the middle of the end bays, the 3rd floor has band courses underlined by alternating brackets and swags. Above the band courses, the middle part of the end bays is projected slightly forward (but still banded), and the 3rd-7th floors have tripartite windows with iron mullions; there are plain stone spandrels between the floors. A band of metopes below a cornice marks the end-bay setbacks at the 7th floor. The single-windows just inside of the end bays also set back above the 7th floor, with the cornice extending onto these bays, and around the inner corner to the middle bays, which are set further back behind the balustrade at the 3rd floor. These bays consist of paired windows at the ends, and a center bay of separated tripartite windows (narrower windows flanking a wider center window). They all have simple recessed panels in the spandrels; these middle bays extend up to the 9th floor, above which there are setbacks at the ends.

The 10th floor still has the center tripartite window, but it is flanked by only a pair of small windows. A projecting stone balcony, carried on two large and two small brackets, with a stone front wall ornamented with metopes and a dentil course, fronts the tripartite window. The 11th floor narrows slightly, with only the center tripartite window, and then a large setback capped by a cornice that wraps around the sides, and a surmounting peaked pediment.

The end bays of tripartite windows, and adjoining single-window bays continue at the 8th & 9th floors, and then above another setback at the 10th & 11th floors. The 12th & 13th floors, above another setback, are similar, except for at the west side, where a projecting section with a glass curtain wall has been added to the 12th floor, extending out to the level of the 11th floor below.

In the center section, there are recessed single-windows flanking the middle tripartite window at the 10th-12th floors, where they too set back. There is a near-full setback above the 13th floor, except for a narrow center section of tripartite window that extends to the 14th floor, where is is topped by a cornice. At the 14th-17th floors the facade is flat, except for the projecting middle bay. There are tripartite windows in the end bays, and single-windows in the next two bays. The middle bay has tripartite windows at the 15th-17th floors, with short setbacks at the sides of the 15th floor, topped by urns. There is another, shallower, almost full-floor setback above the 15th floor, on either side of the center bay.

At the 18th-19th floors the end bays have angled side walls and narrow to single-windows, round-arched at the 19th floor, and the intermediate bays are recessed. The center bay narrows again at the 18th floor, with a double-window topped by a round-arch, and the projecting center bay ends at the top of the 18th floor, surmounted by a triangular pediment. The middle bays of the 19th floor, recessed between the end-bay pavilions are a little bit further recessed, and have three single-windows at the center, flanked by another single-window on either side. Rising from the middle of the roof line at the center is a steep-sloped red tile mansard roof with green copper trim and a peaked green copper dormer on the north, west, and south sides. A chimney rises from the middle of the flat roof of the mansard.

The rear, north-facing facade is clad in brown brick, with multiple shallow setbacks across the full facade, and bays of paired windows. The west elevation, above the neighboring building, is clad in brick, with bays of larger windows toward the front that drop off at the setbacks, and a few smaller windows at the middle of the facade on the lower-mid floors.

The ground floor is occupied by Sashka Jewelry, Ultimate Diamond Company, Deena Jewelers, Rick Shatz Inc. Diamond Traders, and Diamonds by Siag.