Schneider-Anderson Building

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150-foot, 12-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1914. Designed by Hazzard, Erskine & Bladgen, it is clad in white terra-cotta above a 2-story white granite base. The ground floor has glass entrance doors at the east, and a plate-glass storefront at the west. Above, the facade is organized into five bays. The 2nd floor has three square windows in the middle and smaller rectangular windows in the end bays.

The third floor, where the terra-cotta cladding begins, has three large round-arched windows in the middle bays; each is divided into four narrow panes by vertical, brown iron mullions, with a fanlight in the top of the arch. Egg-and-dart moldings outline each round-arch, and stone shields ornament the spaces between the tops of the arches. The end bays have single-windows projecting sills and are topped by foliated pediments with carved heads at the tops.

The upper floors double-windows in the middle bays springing from a sill course with an egg-and-dart molding. The bays are framed by slender, fluted, engaged columns crossed by ribbons. The spandrels are decorated by wreaths and garlands one some floors, with foliate ornament on others. The end bays have simple single-windows. The top floor is set off by a dentiled sill course below the middle bays, and is surmounted by a bracketed, black metal roof cornice that projects further out at the end bays.

The west elevation is clad in dark-brown brick with four bays of single-windows (paired at a few floors). The ground floor is occupied by Metropolitan Commercial Bank.