109 West Broadway

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1860 as a store-and-loft building for attorney Thatcher T. Payne, and leased to various businesses throughout the late 1800s. The 2-story base of the building was altered in the 1920s. It is faced in cast-concrete with modest classically-inspired ornament and is capped by a narrow cornice. A non-historic aluminum and glass enclosure extends out over the sidewalk from the building line.

Faced in sandstone above the second story, the Reade Street facade has three bays of segmental-arched. windows per story. A cast-iron lintel, designed to match the facade's stone lintels, caps the west bay of the 3rd floor. The facade is crowned by a stone cornice with modillions and brackets.

The West Broadway facade, with three widely-spaced bays of window openings per story, continues the same overall design and articulation of detail as the Reade Street facade. The center bay, crowned by a shallow pediment, has wide tripartite windows with unusual arched wood mullions. The broad areas of wall flanking the center bay have star-shaped bolts at the 4th and 5th floors and two faded painted signs. The northern sign reads: "Brush Up Business With Paint Paste Paper Push"; the southern sign features a hand holding a paintbrush.

By the turn of the century, the ground floor was occupied by a cafe. Other later tenants included the White Light Company, and numerous shoe companies. The upper floors were converted to apartments sometime around 1980. The bottom two floors are occupied by Super Linda restaurant.