39 North Moore Street (New York City, New York)

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6-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1908. Designed by William Emerson as a store and loft building for the Herman Metz Company, it extends through the block from North Moore Street to Ericsson Place. Emerson's design for the North Moore facade nearly replicated the Renaissance-inspired terra-cotta ornamental features of the earlier corner building at 122 Hudson Street (1897) as well as the adjacent narrow store and loft building at 41 North Moore Street (1903), both designed by Julius Kastner. On North Moore Street, the yellow iron-spot brick of the upper facade is used for the white-painted piers of the base where a low loading dock spans the building. Above, four windows at each floor are framed by white cast-iron mullions and lintels. The top floor has round-arched windows. A white sheet-metal cornice with narrow modillions above a paneled frieze crowns the facade.

The Ericsson Place facade is a simpler design with window openings placed singly in the red brick wall which terminates in a minimal corbelled brick cornice. Brick piers frame the 1-story base where loading bays flank an entrance bay in which historic doors and a transom remain. A very high loading dock and a sheet-metal awning span the facade. Black iron balconies span the 3rd & 4th floors.

By 1941 the Richter Brothers were using the building as a warehouse. A few years later a smoked and dried fish processor occupied the building and placed tanks on the roof to hold syrup and vinegar; a sign on the west elevation advertised this business. In 1993, it was converted to residential lofts. The ground floor is occupied by Cristina Dos Santos home+design.