55 North Moore Street (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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6-story Romanesque-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1890. Designed by Charles C. Haight as a warehouse, it has a loading platform spanning the base of building where granite pillars and secondary cast-iron piers support the cast-iron lintels. The bays are filled with folding iron doors. A suspended green sheet-metal awning shelters the loading bays.

The piers of the orange brick upper facade rise from those of the base, forming two wide arcaded bays in which cast-iron armatures hold window groups, and a narrower side bay which reveals the location of the elevator within the building. The foliate Romanesque Revival ornament of the moldings and terra-cotta panels at the 5th and 6th floors is combined with the Renaissance Revival detailing of the 1st floor masonry piers and the sheet-metal parapet balustrade. A white metal fire escape covers the left side of the facade.

The warehouse was first used for the storage of broom corn, broom handles, and grocery articles, and soon taken over by the Seeman Brothers wholesale grocery business. In 1978, it was converted from a warehouse to apartments.