The SoCa Building

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7-story cooperative-apartment building, consisting of three joined structures. The Watts Street frontage is made up of two beige brick facades that appear as a single building. Designed by Alexander Baylies and completed in 1911 as a pair of 6-story warehouses, they have stone banding on the ground floor, and on the 2nd-floor of the sections of projecting piers that form the outer two bays and the central two bays. The piers here are capped with ornamental capitals; at the 3rd floor they have vertical grooves and a different style of ornamental capital. Stone cornices cap the 1st, 2nd, and 5th floors, and a modillioned roof cornice caps the roof line.

In 1935 the western building was leased by J. Sausville and Sons, makers of bakers and confectioners supplies. The eastern building was leased in the 1930’s to Damon Type Founders Company and sold in 1937 Frederick Brown. In 1999 they were converted to co-op residences, and joined with the neighboring building at 470 Greenwich.

This building was completed in the late 1890s as a 7-story warehouse. It is clad in red brick above a grey cast-iron ground floor. It has an interesting pattern of keystones across the top of each floor's four bays of windows. A brick parapet caps the roof line, and a black iron fire escape is shared with adjoining building to the south, now part of the same complex called The SoCa Building.