248 East 58th Street (New York City, New York)

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4-story postmodern commercial building originally completed in the late 1800s as a townhouse, but almost completely rebuilt around the 1980s. It is clad in dark-red polished granite with limestone accents, and the upper floors are set back from the lower two. The ground floor has a glass door at each end; the eastern one leads to the upper floors. Between them is a slightly-projecting show-window in black metal framing. Above, the 2nd floor has a low, wide window that also projects and is topped by a projecting center section with a checkerboard pattern of rough-faced limestone rectangles and polished granite. There are also bands of rough-faced limestone at the base and top of the 2nd-floor window. The end piers of polished granite extend up to the base of the 3rd floor and frame a metal railing that caps the projecting center section.

The 3rd & 4th floors have oversized, reflective-glass triple-windows between the end piers. The 4th floor is topped by a parapet with alternating vertical bands of rough-faced limestone and polished granite, which is surmounted by a peaked glass skylight. The lower floors are occupied by The Brass Center.