The Surrey Apartments

 apartment building, 1900_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

78-foot, 7-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1900. It is clad in beige brick above a rusticated limestone ground floor with a rough-faced, grey granite water table. There is a central entrance with glass double-doors below a sloped awning, flanked by low sidewalls with lanterns on top. The bay to the left has a plate-glass window with a scrolled keystones, behind a stone baluster that fronts a stairway down to a basement entrance. The bay to the right has a glass double-door and transom under a matching keystone, accessing the ground-floor restaurant at the west end. The wider end bays are rounded and projecting, with three windows at the west bay (each topped by a scrolled keystone), and with two windows flanking a central glass door at the east end bay, for another restaurant. An up-angled metal canopy covers the east end bay. Flanking the upper part of the main entrance are two sets of paired brackets joined by swags, supporting a stone band course across the top of the ground floor, topped by a metal railing, bowing out to follow the projecting end bays.

Above the ground floor a central light well split the facade into two wings. The end bays still have three single-windows, there are double-windows in the next bay, and there are narrow, angled corners with single-windows where the light well begins. The 2nd floor has thin, textured terra-cotta banding and is capped by a band course with an egg-and-dart molding that crosses the light well at the front. All of the windows are gently segmental-arched and topped by elaborate keystones flanked by swags.

At the upper floors the windows have stone surrounds with small keystones. The angled, single-windows and the outer windows at the rounded end bays have flat lintels, and the double-windows and center windows at the rounded end bays have rounded pediments with cartouches. The 6th floor is topped by a modillioned cornice, and the roof line at the 7th floor is crowned by a dentiled cornice. A pair of grey-brown metal fire escapes runs down the two wings, extending onto the inner window of the rounded end bays.

The rear wall of the light well has a bay of single-windows, and another fire escape. Toward the rear of the sidewalls is another single-window bay, these with stone surrounds. There is another light well at the rear, south-facing facade.

The building contains 48 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by Tanner Smith's bar, and The Rickey bar.