The Jones Building

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10-story office building completed in 1899. Designed by Albert Wagner, both of its facades are five bays wide. The 2-story base is clad in limestone with heavy horizontal rustications of rough-faced stone. The main entrance, at the eastern bay on Duane Street, is recessed below a double-height round-arch with a large scrolled keystone and carved medallions on either side. Decorative carvings line the arch, which has blue-painted mullions separating the window panes in the 2nd-story level of the arch. The rest of the ground floor has rectangular openings with canvas canopies, and paired windows at the 2nd floor. All the windows have blue-painted framing. The base is capped by a cornice with a broad frieze decorated by a row of circles.

The upper floors also have paired windows set between piers with more delicate rustications than on the base. The 3rd-7th floors have square-headed windows, while the 8th floor culminates in round-arched in each bay similar to the arch above the main entrance. The piers end in capitals at the 8th floor, supporting the base of each arch. The top two floors have a pair of narrow, double-height round-arches in each bay, with windows of the two floors separated by stone spandrels similar to those on the lower floors. The narrow space around and above the arches but below the tall dark-grey roof parapet is clad in vertically-laid limestone, painted blue. The ground floor is occupied by Fika 52 Duane restaurant, and H&R Block.