Lewis & Conger Building | office building

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9-story office building completed in 1911. Designed by Renwick Aspinwall & Tucker, and formerly known as the Lewis & Conger Building, it has wide beige brick piers above a 3-story, white-painted limestone base. The north facade on 45th Street has six bays, and the west facade on the avenue is three bays wide. The double-height main entrance is in the easternmost bay, with a modern glass wall and glass doors; the 3rd floor at this bay also has a modernized glass triple-window over a light-grey metal spandrel. The other ground-floor bays have metal-and-glass storefronts and show-windows on the 2nd floor. The rest of the 3rd floor has tripartite windows in black cast-iron, above paneled spandrels. The wide stone piers have simple capitals supporting an entablature; on the west facade, the entablature has triglyphs at the end bays, and modillions on the cornice.

The upper floors have similar piers of brick, and more tripartite windows with black iron mullions and spandrels. At the top floors the bays ends in shallow segmental-arches with brick lintels and flat keystones. Both facades are crowned by a tan roof cornice with slender paired brackets at the piers, and finials along the top. The ground floor is occupied by a Wells Fargo Bank branch, and La Bleu Optique, with Baldwin Formals on the 2nd floor.