356 Broadway (New York City, New York)

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5-story (six floors at the rear side due to the slope of the site) residential building completed in 1860 as a store-and-loft building. It housed various offices throughout the 20th century until being converted to condominiums in 1984. The Broadway facade is faced in cast-iron, with rustications on the outer piers of the lower three floors. The ground floor is painted dark grey, while the upper floors are tan. Each floor is divided into three bays with rounded corners by rounded Doric columns. There are modest cornices above the lower three floors (with dentils on the ground floor), and a broader cornice above the 4th floor, where the outer piers are capped by scrolled brackets crowned with spheres with pointed tops. The top floor has a modern metal and glass facade, angled steeply back like a mansard. The roof parapet with stone coping rises above.

At the rear facade facing Benson Place, the ground floor is clad in various metal, stone and brick with a freight entrance. The upper floors are a mix of beige and red brick, with four bays of windows. The 2nd-3rd floors are framed with black cast-iron piers between each bay and above the 3rd floor. The windows here have black brick headers and sills. On the floors above, the windows are slightly recessed between the piers; some are split into separate upper and lower square windows, while others are taller rectangular units. They have black stone sills (the lower ones where they are split into upper and lower), and flat black stone lintels. A simple stone coping caps the brick roof parapet.