Seven Harrison

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7-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1893 as a warehouse. Designed by William Schickel, it is clad in red brick. The Harrison Street facade has six symmetrically arranged bays. At the ground floor, rough-cut granite piers support the ends and center, with cast-iron piers separating the three bays in each half of the building. Full-height metal shutters and a metal transom grille are extant in the western bays.

Above the base, the 2nd & 5th floors are articulated by keyed window surrounds of vermiculated brick and splayed lintels. The 3rd, 4th & 5th floors are unified by unbroken piers rising from a continuous sill course and culminating in a round-arched arcade. A similar continuous sill course is at the 6th floor while the 7th floor is marked by a projecting bandcourse at the sill line. The entire facade is crowned by a broad, brown, bracketed cornice with dentils.

The design of the Harrison Street facade continues on the three northernmost bays of the Staple Street elevation, although the top cornice had been removed and replaced by an arcaded brick parapet. At the ground floor cast-iron piers define the first three northern bays, with cast-iron lintels and transom grilles between them. The rest of the ground floor is faced with painted brick with a variety of plain window and door openings, including a vehicular entrance in the southernmost bay. At the 2nd floor the same decorative window surrounds as are found on the Harrison Street facade continue on Staple Street. The rest of this facade has plain, evenly-spaced window openings with stone sills and flat lintels. Flanking the windows are parts of hinges indicating the past existence of shutters at these openings. A narrow sill course marks the top floor.

In 1906, the interior was altered to allow for cold storage and it was leased to the Merchants' Refrigerating Company. By 1946, half the building had become the West Side Warehouse, and half the Washington Cold Storage Company. In 1955 the entire building was leased by the West Side Cold Storage Company. It was converted to residential use in the 1980s, and renovated into luxury condominiums designed by Steven Harris in 2014.