Butterick Building (New York City, New York)

 office building, high-rise, 1904_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

207-foot, 14-story Beaux-arts office building completed in 1904. Designed by Horgan & Slattery for Ebenezer Butterick's publishing company, which produced magazines concerning sewing and fashion trades. Today, the building contains offices of New York University and Miramax, as well as publishing companies and architecture firms. There is a Benjamin Moore paint and decorating center, and the Van Dam Diner on the ground floor.

The facade is angled along the corner from Spring Street to 6th Avenue, with a stone ground floor topped by a cornice, and a rusticated stone 2nd floor with oversized splayed lintels above the windows. The upper floors are clad in tan brick, with rustications at the edges and on the 1-bay, chamfered corner facing the intersection. The windows are grouped into triples, with wide connected stone sills. Stone cornices framed the top and bottom of the 11th floor. Above the 13th floor there is ornate terra-cotta ornament, and a projecting, white, modillioned roof cornice.

The walls of the building that are set back from the street (and behind the shorter building at 169 Sixth) are also clad in tan brick, but without the decorative rustications and connecting sills of the front facades. The northern elevation fronting Vandam Street has the same design as the facades.

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