20 Harrison Street | condominium

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4-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1892. Designed by P. Henry Gilvarry as a store-and-loft building, the ground floor has white fluted cast-iron outer piers and narrow center piers supporting a metal cornice. The upper floors have white-painted brick continuous end piers, and narrow white cast-iron piers separating the windows. The Renaissance-revival style of the building is articulated by the ornate cast-iron spandrels and by the swag-embellished frieze and bracketed cornice which cap the building. A recessed penthouse above this is a later addition.

The original house and lot were acquired by Archibald Hopkins in 1860. The property remained in the Hopkins family until 1948. From 1920 through the mid-1930s the property was leased by the dairy merchants, Breakstone & Levine, later Breakstone Brothers. Other dairy merchants occupied the building in the following years. It was converted to condominiums in the 1980s. The ground floor is occupied by Matt Bernson shoes.