The Press

 office building, commercial building

14-story office building completed in 1908 as a printing plant for Charles Scribner's Sons. Designed by Ernest Flagg, it was later converted to warehouse space, and then renovated into modern offices in 2016. The main facade is eight bays wide, clad in red brick and terra-cotta above a white-painted limestone ground floor.

The main entrance is in the eastern bay, under a metal canopy, while the next bay to the left and the two westernmost bays have secondary and service entrances. The middle bays each have three large, blue-tinted windows panes, topped by a band of black iron grillwork in a decorative pattern. The upper floors have large, 3-over-3 industrial windows in the middle bays, and narrower 2-over-3 windows in the end bays. All the 2nd-floor windows, and all of those in the end bays have white stone sills; there are also two short stone band courses at the tops of the end bays on the 2nd floor. All of the end-bay windows have flat limestone keystones. The middle bays on the other floors have red terra-cotta spandrels, each with three panels and a circle in the center of the middle panel; those between the 2nd & 3rd floors also have intricate foliate carvings within the panels. Below the panels, the spandrels have rows of small rosettes.

At the 13th floor the piers at the end bays have dramatic red terra-cotta cartouches with hanging ornament. The paneled spandrels are missing below the top floor, which has geometric terra-cotta carvings on all the piers. The roof line is marked by a stone coping. The west and east elevations are plain red brick, with a central recessed area on the east side for a metal vent pipe. The east facade also has a bay of single-windows at the front edge on the top six floors. The rear, north-facing facade has triple-windows in each of the eight bays.

As a printing plant, the Scribner Building had a great influence on what literature is today, as it provided printing, platemaking, typesetting and binding, and published some of the most famous novels by Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King, and Tom Wolfe, among others.