The Merchant House (east) (New York City, New York)

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6-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1896 as a warehouse. Designed by Marsh, Israels & Harder, its ground floor has rough stone-faced piers and thinner black cast-iron piers supporting the cast-iron lintel framing the loading bays of the base. A suspended metal awning covers the base. The tan iron-spot brick of the upper facade is trimmed with rock-faced granite window lintels and quoin-like bands at the corners of the facade and edges of the windows, which, along with the stringcourses subtly suggest the Renaissance Revival style then popular in commercial architecture. Brick corbelling remains at the crown of the facade.

The Merchants' Refrigerating Company acquired the building in 1900, adding to their stock of cold storage warehouses along this block; they have owned the building through most of the 20th century. The building was converted to condominiums (along with the neighboring building to the west) in the late 1990s, called The Merchant House. The ground floor is occupied by Art et Maison kitchen, bath and furniture store.
In the late 1990s, it was converted into condominiums, combined with the neighboring building (35-37 N. Moore) and dubbed The Merchant House.