19 Harrison Street

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3-story late-Greek-revival residential building originally completed about 1830. It was updated with cast iron storefronts in 1888 through an alteration by architect Mortimer Merritt. Between the piers of the base are two historic storefronts composed of double wooden doors topped by transoms and large, multipane windows. Above the base, the building is five bays wide, each bay containing a plain rectangular window opening with a stone sill and flat lintel. All of the windows of the upper stories have been replaced. The composition is crowned by a dentilled, wooden cornice. There is a narrow space between this building and the one to the east at the 2nd & 3rd floors. The eastern elevation of this building is an unarticulated brick wall.

During the 20th century the building was leased by the firm of Lackmann & Borjes, also liquor distributors, and several egg merchants, including J. Neugeborenn & Sons and Silverman Butter & Egg Company. Currently the building is occupied by residences above a commercial base. The ground floor is occupied by an extension of Dahlia's Mexican restaurant, located next door.