Castree Building (New York City, New York)

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6-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1891 as a warehouse building. Designed by Thomas R. Jackson, it isa near-twin of the building Jackson designed for Castree across North Moore Street to the south, but with different colored materials. The dark-green cast-iron framed base, cast by the J.B. & J.M. Cornell foundry, spans Hudson Street, returns for four bays on the North Moore Street facade, and is repeated in the western four bays as well; each opening, framed by piers supporting the lintel, retains its original folding iron security shutters with a transom bar and glazed transom and grille above. A 3-bay center section of the North Moore facade has two tiers of openings - highly-placed windows and low openings at the vault level which provided access to the basement. An awning of green sheet metal and translucent panels covers the full ground floor.

The light-brown brick upper floors have two tiers of bays separated by a cornice. "Castree Building" appears on the granite frieze of both facades. The upper tier forms a three-story arcade. The large mass of the building is broken up by pilasters with terra-cotta capitals, dividing the facade into three-and four-bay wide sections.The center three-bay section of the North Moore facade, with a pattern of wide piers generated by the form of the base, contrasts with the narrower piers of the remainder of the facade. Above a corbelled brick and sheet-metal cornice, the paneled parapet balustrade features the 1891 construction date.

The building was leased by the Seeman Brothers wholesale grocery business upon completion, and later occupied by the Warren Fastenings Corp. in the '60s. The Castree Building was renovated and converted to condominiums in 1999. The ground floor is occupied by Mr. Chow restaurant.