19 Jay Street

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5-story Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1888. Designed by William Graul as a store-and-loft building, it has a grey cast-iron ground floor with a rosette-embellished frieze, and a dentiled cornice. Within each bay are historic transoms. Above the fixed metal awning, red brick piers project slightly between the windows, while continuous end piers frame the entire facade, culminating in an elaborately corbelled parapet, stepped up in the center. Continuous stone lintels and stone imposts articulate each story by their contrasting material, while projecting sillcourses are also marked by stone bands.

Early tenants included butter and egg merchants. The building was later bought by the Bazzini Brothers company, processors and distributors of nuts and dried fruit, whose main building was located next door at Greenwich Street. It has since been converted to residential use.