228 Front Street (New York City, New York)

 apartment building, 1830s construction

6-story residential building completed in 1830 as a warehouse. Four window bays wide with a red brick facade, it retains few of its original Greek-revival features. The cast-iron shopfront (now painted dark grey-green), added in the second half of the 19th century, is particularly handsome. Three massive paneled square columns with stylized acanthus leaf capitals extend across the facade and once carried a cast-iron lintel, now missing. The windows have red-painted flat stone sills and lintels, and a black metal fire escape runs down the center two bays. The simple dentiled roof cornice with brick fascia, partly restored, extends the width of the building. An elevator bulkhead extends above the cornice at the north end of the roof. The ground floor is occupied by Jeremy's Ale House.