The Ice House (New York City, New York)

 condominiums, 1905_construction, Neo-Renaissance (architecture)

13-story Neo-Renaissance residential building originally completed in 1905 as a 10-story cold storage warehouse or the Merchants' Refrigerating Company, who owned the building until the mid-20th century. Designed by William H. Birkmire, it extends through the block as an L-shaped building with a fifty-foot facade on North Moore Street and a 108-foot facade on Ericsson Place. This building was the second structure the firm erected for its complex on this block. The Merchants' Refrigerating Company continued to own the building until the mid-20th century.

Built with iron columns and steel girders, and a cinder concrete floor system, the building has limited fenestration in its yellow brick facade on North Moore Street and red brick facade on Ericsson Place, revealing its use as a cold storage warehouse. The stark facades incorporate abstracted classicizing elements in their design: the tall arcades, with arches springing from stylized Corinthian pilaster capitals, and the attic story of abstracted Palladian windows. The windows are placed under extended sandstone lintels spanning from pier to pier.

Loading platforms and sheet-metal awnings span loading bays along the bases of both facades where cast-iron piers and lintels frame openings between brick piers. In the 1910s cooling towers were erected on the roof of the building.

The building was converted in 2001 by Joseph Pell Lombari into luxury condominiums, and renamed the Ice House. The ground floor is occupied by Tortola Salon, and TriBeCa Community School.