15 Jay Street | apartment building

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5-story Romanesque-revival/Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1887. Designed by D. & J. Jardine as three connected store-and-loft buildings, with cast-iron piers at the ground level. The upper floors are clad in red brick, trimmed with terra-cotta and stone. Continuous piers link the 2nd & 3rd, and 4th & 5th floors, with Romanesque Revival-inspired foliate spandrels between them. This style is also reflected in the round-arched arcade at the top story and the corbelled brick cornice which crowns the building. The unusual stone lintels of the segmental windows at the third story show the waning influence of the Neo-Grec style.

As with so many buildings in this area, early tenants included butter and egg merchants. After sitting vacant for many years, this building was renovated into apartments around 2000.