85 South Street

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8-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1902 as a warehouse. Designed by G. Curtis Gillespie for Maximilian Morgenthau, it was leased to Colson Hamilton and James M. Congalton to house tobacco. Above its rough-faced stone basement, the facade is clad in brick (painted white), trimmed with contrasting red brick and terra-cotta. The cast-iron storefront was modernized in the mid-1900s; it is deeply recessed behind a short set of stone steps, with a cast-iron lintel spanning across toe top, and a single paneled cast-iron rectangular column toward the left side. To the left of the storefront a round-arched window, characteristic of the Romanesque-Revival, is accentuated by a wide arch of dark red brick. This round arch motif recurs at the 2nd-floor windows.The upper floors each have four bays of windows, with rough stone sills, as well as lintels on the 3rd-7th floors' square-headed windows.

At the top floor, paired narrow round-arched windows have red radial brick arches, carried on slender engaged columns. The top floor is further embellished by small cartouches set between the arches of the windows. The most Interesting features of this facade are the long, thin, red brick prow-shaped forms which extend almost the full height of the building on either side. They are surmounted by terra-cotta turrets, ornamented with a variety of swirl forms almost Art Nouveau in character. A metal cornice may once have been set just below the crenelated roof line.

Now residential, it has 24 apartments, and the ground floor is occupied by high-end dog daycare and spa Fetch Club.