814 Tenth Avenue (New York City, New York)

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7-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1901. Designed by Schneider & Herter as a tenement, it is clad in tan brick with limestone trim. The entrance is at the south end, with glass double-doors framed by grey stone; to the north is a metal-and-glass storefront with a central entrance and red-and-white striped awning.

The upper floors have seven bays of single-windows, round-arched at the 4th & 5th floors, and square-headed on the others. Each floor has a continuous stone sill course, and the 2nd floor is banded. Except for at the top floor, all the square-headed windows are topped by hooded lintels. There are bands of dentiled brick above the 2nd floor, joining the shoulder of the 3rd-floor windows, and below the 6th floor. Brick spandrels with checkerboard patterns are located at each bay between the 3rd & 4th floors. The round-arched windows at the 4th & 5th floors have rope moldings at the edges, and egg-and-dart moldings along the outer edge of the arches; stone bands connect these windows at the shoulders. Below the 5th floor is a stone frieze with foliate carvings. At the 6th floor there are limestone sunbursts above and between the lintels of the two bays on each side than flank the center bay.

A pair of black metal fire escapes with basket-style landings runs down the facade, one covering only the south bay, and the outer fronting the 2nd & 3rd bays from the north. A plain beige parapet remains where the original roof cornice was. The ground floor is occupied by United We Stand Deli.