38-40 North Moore Street (New York City, New York)

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6-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1902. Designed by Franklin Baylies as a warehouse, it is clad in cream-colored brick, and has a 2-story base with pilasters supporting a stone cornice; paired windows with cast-iron mullions fill the second-story bays. Masonry piers and secondary cast-iron piers frame the openings of the ground floor where historic wood-framed transoms remain. A sheet- metal awning, suspended by rods hung from star-shaped plates and supported on brackets constructed of angle iron, shelters the loading platform.

The upper facade of cream-colored iron-spot brick is divided horizontally by secondary stone cornices. Brick pilasters frame the windows of the attic story below a modillioned sheet-metal cornice with modillions and dentils.

The building was initially leased by the grocery firm of Acker, Merrill & Condit. The produce and butter firm of Pettit & Reed leased the building around 1910. It remained in use as a food products warehouse through the 1970s. It was converted to residential around 2000.