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

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6-story residential building completed in 1897/1907. The western portion was designed by Buchman and Deisler as a warehouse, which went up in 1897. Ten years later, architect James Gavigan created an addition which replicated the original structure, and almost doubled the building in size. The entire structure was converted to condominiums in the 1980s.

On the eastern section (Nos. 59-63), the grid-like design of the orange iron-spot brick upper facade has a structural quality, with expressed cast-iron lintels joining pairs of windows in each of the cellular bays. Spandrels and intermediate cornices are horizontal counterparts to the projecting pilasters. Two black, dentiled sheet-metal cornices terminate the facade. The base of the building has a continuous loading platform and loading bays frame by brick and brownstone pillars and secondary cast-iron framing piers; two sheet-metal awnings shelter the dock.

The older western section (Nos. 65-67) is clad in the same grid-like facade of orange iron-spot brick, with iron lintels joining pairs of windows in each bay. Brownstone banding of the 1st-story piers, spandrels, and intermediate cornices are horizontal counterparts to the projecting pilasters. The same style of black dentiled metal roof cornice tops the facade. The end bays of the ground floor above the loading platform steps have glass-block infill. A black iron fire escape with rounded corners runs down the center bay of the facade.

The wine dealers Edinger Brothers & Jacobi, later known as Lachman & Jacobi, occupied the building until 1912 when the building was leased by the Seeman Brothers wholesale grocery business which occupied most of the buildings on this blockfront until the mid-twentieth century. The warehouse has also been used by the Nestles' Food, Inc. and Kraft Phoenix Food Cheese companies.