109 Washington Street

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5-story residential building completed in 1885. Designed by John P. Lee as a tenement, it originally had a projecting bay window storefront, which has since been altered. The upper floors are clad in red brick, with four bays of windows featuring molded brownstone sills and lintels with neo-Classical inspired swags reliefs. The painted sheet-metal, neo-Grec roof cornice held up by projecting brackets has a matching sheet-metal belt course just below the cornice; both are painted a brown color to resemble the cast iron window trim. A belt course of slate or bluestone runs through the upper edge of the windows on each floor, and a fire escape on the façade of the building has been extant on the building beginning some time prior to 1907; the current fire escape was most likely preceded by another one, due to holes in the masonry of the facade where the previous escape would have been attached.

In 1955, the first floor store was equipped to prepare food and was converted into a deli. The ground floor has since remained a food service location, housing various restaurants including Marino’s Pizza in the 1980s and currently Boonrasa Thai Food.