111 Reade Street

 apartment building, 1886_construction

5-story Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1886. Designed by Berger & Baylies as a store-and-loft building. Its design is almost identical to that of the adjacent building at 109 Reade, which was also designed by Berger & Baylies and built a year earlier. The facade is divided into three bays and is faced in brick above a cast-iron storefront. The upper stories are set off by sill courses and projecting pilasters at the edges of the facade. Segmental-arched window openings are used at the 2nd, 4th, and 5th stories; flat-arched openings are employed at the 3rd story. The spandrel panels between the 3rd and 4th-story windows are recessed.

The building is crowned by a semi-circular pediment and bracketed cornice (a portion of the cornice was removed in 1915 to accommodate the present fire escape). Raised lettering on the pediment indicates that the building was originally known as the De Raismes Building. The chimney in the center of the white-painted brick sidewall was rebuilt in 1943.

Throughout its history the building has been occupied by wholesale shoe dealers, luggage merchants, and the American Pistachio Company, a tenant from 1943 through 1991, when the upper floors were converted to residential use.