20 North Moore Street (New York City, New York) | condominiums, 1895_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

 condominiums, 1895_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

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9-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1895. Designed by William Schickel & Co. as a warehouse, it was converted to residential use in the late 1980s. The 2-story rusticated pink granite base has three bays with nearly-flat arched heads; the openings contain secondary cast-iron framing, transoms, and, in the center bay, a historic window with a grille protecting the lower portion. There are three corresponding window bays above. Narrow side bays denote the location of the elevator shafts and have a small window at each floor.

Arcades are formed by smooth 6-story piers culminating in segmental arches in the red brick midsection of the facade; recessed spandrels have granite and terra-cotta elements and separate grouped windows. At the attic story engaged columns of curved brick serve as mullions in the window groups, framed with bull's-eye windows in the end bays; a bracketed copper cornice terminates the facade. The reddish iron-spot brick of the facade returns as keys on the two side elevations of common brown brick.

The building was built for Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Company, who occupied it for ten years before it was leased to the Continental Color & Chemical Company in 1906. Later tenants included the Myers Lipman Wool Stock Company and the Emil Greiner Company, paint manufacturers. The building was converted into a residential condominium in the early 1980s.