74 Reade Street | apartment building

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5.5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1860. Designed by James H. Giles as a store-and-loft building, it has two identical facades, with the exception being that the western section is four bays wide, while the eastern side is three bays wide. The building is clad in marble above a glass and grey cast-iron storefront with flute columns and a modillioned cornice. The 2nd-4th floors have segmental-arched windows and lintels; the top-floor windows are round-arched. Molded stone window heads and bracketed sills further enhance the design. The facade is crowned by a bracketed cast-iron cornice, and a black metal fire escape runs down the east edge.

By the 1950s it was occupied by a number of wholesale footwear companies, as well as offices of the Registered Nurses Guild. The building is currently commercial at the first story, and residential above. The ground floor is occupied by Yoga & Pilates in Tribeca.