142 Beekman Street

 Romanesque (architecture), apartment building, 1885_construction

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5-story Romanesque-revival building completed in 1885. Designed by George B. Post for Ellen S. Auchmuty (a Schermerhorn descendent), the building was first occupied by Samuel T. Skldmore, a fish dealer, and over the years It has always housed businesses associated with the Fulton Fish Market. The relationship between the fish market and the building was symbolized In a delightful way through the introduction of an Imaginative variety of ornamental detail. Above the white-painted cast-iron ground floor, the four stories of red brick with round-arched windows are enlivened by terra-cotta keystones displaying fanciful decorative fish. The wide, molded brick arches of the windows are connected to one another at impost block level by a molded terra-cotta band course which extends across the Beekman and Front Street facades. The starfish tie-rod washers continue the maritime theme, as does the elaborate cockleshell roof cornice of terra-cotta. These elegant cockleshells repeat in miniature the round arch motif of the windows.

Salud! restaurant was on ground level but it now closed, replaced by Emily Thompson Flowers.

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