184 Franklin Street

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6-story Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1885. Designed by Louis Meystre as a tenement with commercial base, it has a black cast-iron ground floor, with wood transoms and a metal cornice. The upper floors are clad in red brick, with prominent pressed-metal window lintels and sills and a large, black roof cornice with brackets and modillions. The metal cornices have been removed from most of the windows in the western bay, which have small accessory windows attached to the left side of the main windows. Other remaining features include the ornate iron fire escape and the bluestone paving which survives in the area adjacent to the building.

In the mid-twentieth century, the first story was occupied by a branch of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Above the first story, the building is still residential.