The Lincoln

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6-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1905. Designed by Alfred E. Badt as a tenement, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 2-story rusticated limestone base. The basement level is raised partially above the sidewalk, with areaways enclosed by iron fencing; both ends have a gate and stairs down to the basement level. In the middle of the facade a low set of steps leads up to the main entrance portico. The paired glass doors and transom are framed by a stone molding, with four bays of single-windows on either side. Flanking the steps, a low paneled stone wall serves as a base for two pairs of grey granite columns with stylized Ionic capitals supporting a projecting portico entablature, which has a frieze decorated with foliate ornament and "THE LINCOLN" carved at the center. The middle section, above the doors, projects out farther, and is surmounted (along with the less-projecting ends) by a stone balustrade; the ends of each of the three balustrade sections are framed by paneled stone blocks, topped at the end sections by stone spheres. There are nine windows across the 2nd floor; those outside of the portico balcony have projecting stone sills. The outer three bays on each side have scrolled keystones, and the middle three bays have large brackets supporting a stone balcony at the 3rd floor, serving as a base for a fire escape landing. The fire escape is black iron with decorative railings on the landings, spanning the three middle bays.

The brick upper floors have brick quoins at the edges and separating the two outer bays on each side from the five middle bays. The outer two bays on each side have splayed stone lintels with flat keystones, as do the middle three but with decorated keystones. The remaining two bays have shorter lintels and scrolled keystones. Stone band courses set off the 3rd, 4th & 6th floors, and the top floor also have horizontal brick banding. There is now only a plain parapet where a roof cornice originally crowned the facade.