65 Reade Street

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1854 as a store-and-loft building. It spans through the block to Chambers Street, where it is faced in stone (now stuccoed and painted salmon-red) above the second story, its four bays of window openings at each story have segmental-arched heads and bracketed stone sills. The facade is capped by a red metal roof cornice with modillions and end brackets. A black metal fire escape runs down the center. In 1899 architect William Bloodgood removed the facade at the second story and installed a brown-cast-iron-framed show window, composed of ornamented pilasters and slender mullions supporting a bracketed cornice.

The simpler Reade Street facade is faced in brick (now painted white) above the first story, and has four bays of square-headed window openings at each story (the east bays are sealed). The facade is topped by brick dentils supporting a narrow iron cornice. The east elevation, visible above the neighboring buildings on Chambers and Reade Streets, is of painted brick and has several sealed window openings.

The building remains in commercial use at the first two stories on Chambers Street (occupied by Less Less discount store), and at the ground floor of Reade Street. The upper floors have been renovated recently.