18 Harrison Street | apartment building

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5-story Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1885. Designed by Detlef Lienau as a store-and-loft building, it has grey cast-iron piers at the ground floor, with red brick end piers. The upper floors are clad in red brick, ornamented solely with flat stone lintels above the windows and a brown, bracketed sheet-metal cornice at the top.

The building was joined internally with 14-16 Harrison in 1886. In 1897, Garret M. Van Olinda, a liquor merchant, obtained a lease on the property. It was purchased in 1908 by the firm of Lambly & Alpaugh which dealt in produce and later, butter. From 1920 through the 1930s, the building housed the firm of Honig & Klein, egg and dairy merchants. Several other cheese and egg distribution companies occupied the building through the 1940s and '50s. In the 1970s it was converted to residential.