The Johnson Building

 office building, commercial building

150-foot, 12-story office building completed in 1914. Designed by Clinton & Russell, it is clad in brown brick with limestone trim, and has a chamfered southeast corner. There is an open light court in the center of the plot, with the building wrapping around it in roughly a C-shape. The east facade, angled to follow Broadway, is nine bays wide, with the southernmost being a narrower half-bay. The north facade on 36th Street has four and a half bays. The south facade on 35th Street spans 11 bays, plus a cast-iron extension to the chamfered corner at the 2nd floor; this extension overhangs the ground floor, has double-windows on each of its three sides, and has ornamented pilasters and a modest iron cornice at the top. Three stainless steel horizontal bars wrap around the extension and continue along the south three bays of the east facade, bearing letters spelling out an "URBAN OUTFITTERS" sign.

The main entrance is at the center of the Broadway facade, with brass and glass doors and canopy, and a frame of fluted limestone and brown granite that extends partly up into the 2nd floor. Storefronts of various design occupy most of the other ground-floor bays. The far west bay on both the north and south facades have service entrances, with large, brown-painted stone frames that are also partially fluted. The 2nd floor has four windows in each full bay, framed in brown metal and outlined in patterned metal moldings.

The brick cladding begins at the 3rd floor, which is topped by a stone band with simple recessed panels at each bay and outlined panels at the piers. The upper-floor bays on the north and south sides have paired windows with brick headers and patterned brick spandrels; on the east facade they are paired double-windows. The chamfered corner bay also has double-windows. The 10th floor is framed at the bottom and top by limestone spandrels and panels on the piers. The spandrels between the two top floors are stone, decorated with escutcheons. At the roof line the main piers have limestone capitals, and the intermediate piers between the paired windows have different, slightly smaller stone caps. Between the piers run a dentiled band course and brick parapet.

The upper part of the west elevation on the north end of the building is clad in brick with no windows. The ground floor is occupied by Urban Outfitters (which also takes up most of the 2nd floor), Poke Bar, The Dr. Martens Store, and Shake Shack.