Professional Music Building

 office building, commercial building

166-foot, 15-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1928. Designed by DePace & Juster (partnership of Anthony J. DePace and Samuel Juster), it has a 4-bay front facade clad in brown brick above a 2-story base. The ground floor has a main entrance at the east end, with brass-and-glass double doors framed by 3-over-1 sidelights and transom, also in brass and glass, surrounded by polished grey granite. To the left is an orange-painted storefront with four round-arches with black metal and glass window and door infill. There is a cornice and row of vents above the storefront (fronted by an iron railing), with a brown, modillioned band course capping the ground floor above the storefront. The 2nd floor is faced in limestone with four windows. The two inner windows are 2-over-2 panes with a transom at the top, and the two outer windows are tripartite with 1-over-1 end panes. The base is capped by a bronze-colored stone cornice with modillions and carved bases for the piers above featuring various human musical figures.

The upper floors have paired windows in each of the four bays, with wider brick piers between the bays, and narrower ones between the individual windows. The spandrels are of a darker brick. At the 3rd floor the windows have round-arched, concave stone lintels, topped at the outer bays by thin stone spires that extend up through the spandrel and break the sill of the windows in the floor above. The piers on the 3rd floor also have niches with stone pedestals at the bottoms and projecting, round stone caps at the tops; above these, at the 4th floor, there are ornamental stone shapes at the piers, roughly shaped like pointed finials. A small stone triangle highlights each intermediate pier at this floor.

The round-arches and pier ornament repeats at the outer bays of the 10th floor, where there is a setback, and at the 11th floor, where the middle bays also set back, with the stone finials projecting above the setbacks. Matching setbacks repeat above the end bays of the 12th floor and middle bays of the 13th. All the windows of the 14th floor have the round-arched tops, and there is a shallower setback at the end bays; the middle bays end at the lower roof line. The end bays continue as end pavilions up another floor, each with a pair of round-arched windows, although those on the east side have been filled-in.

The east elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick, with two bays of single-windows toward the rear, where there are also multiple setbacks on the north facade. The front of this elevation has vertical bands of the lighter-colored brick from the front facade. The west elevation has a similar cladding and design.

There is a large, vertical sign attached to the west edge of the front facade, from the 2nd-5th floors, with a palm tree and the word "HAVANA". The ground floor is occupied by Havana Central restaurant and bar.