Stock Quotation Telegraph Building

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230-foot, 18-story Neo-Classical cooperative-apartment building completed in 1910 as an office building for the Norton Lilly Company. Designed by Clinton & Russell, it is clad in limestone and buff-colored brick with a granite water table. Its tri-partite design is divided into a 4-story base, 11-story shaft, and 3-story capital, with identical elevations on both Beaver and Marketfield Streets. The visible portions of the east and west facades are similar but simpler. The ground-floor storefronts are set with large aedicular openings. The 2nd-4th floors are divided by triple-height plain piers into 3-story-tall bays with recessed metal-framed triple windows with classical detailing. Above these windows on the 4th floor is inscribed NORTON LILLY & COMPANY.

Projecting stone band courses mark the transitional stone-faced 5th floor, above which rises the brick shaft, each story arranged as three bays with paired windows and simple brick spandrel panels. The 16th-18th floors have brick piers with capitals and rise to a projecting, modillioned roof cornice. The building later served as the Stock Quotation Telegraph Building, and was converted to residential in 1980, one of the earliest such lower Manhattan conversions.