250 West 54th Street (New York City, New York)

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165-foot, 13-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1911. Designed by Percy Griffin, it is clad in green cast-iron and glass, between red-brick end piers above a 2-story base, seven bays wide. The ground floor has the main entrance in the east bay, and a freight entrance in the west bay. Both are framed by rounded stone columns supporting entablatures with roundels at the ends, and egg-and-dart moldings below the cornices. The main entrance has glass double-doors and sidelights below a segmental-arched, tripartite transom; the freight entrance has black metal double-doors. The bays in between have various metal-and-glass storefronts. The 2nd floor has large, floor-to-ceiling triple-windows with aluminum framing in each of the middle bays (each pane with a twin-transom above it), and the end bays are clad in stone with large single-windows. Short stone cornices caps the base at the end bays, and in the middle there is a rounded green metal cornice with decorative ribs.

The upper floors are clad in dark-red banded brick at the end bays, each with a single-window. There are short band courses above the 3rd floor, with projecting flagpoles. The middle five bays have triple-windows, framed in green cast-iron. The iron piers between these bays are paneled at the 3rd floor, and above they are angled at the sides with vertical rows of dentils. The spandrels above the 3rd floor are each divided into three recessed panels. The 11th floor has broad segmental-arches across the tops of the middle bays, and a dentiled band course sets off the 12th floor, which is clad in limestone. This floor also has single-windows in the end bays, flanked by incised panels at the piers, and has three square-headed windows in each middle bay, separated by pilasters. The 12th floor is topped by a stone cornice with modillions and an egg-and-dart molding. Above it is a white brick parapet that fronts a patio area for the recessed top floor.

The east elevation is clad in dark-red brick, with two thin horizontal bands of stone at the 12th floor. There is a bay of single-windows at the front edge. Further back is a bay of filled-in openings, and then two bays of paired windows. The 13th floor only rises from the front half of the building. The ground floor is occupied by RPM Underground karaoke bar, Crunch Fitness (also on the 2nd floor), a Subway sandwiches, and Black Iron Burger.