474 Greenwich Street (New York City, New York)

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6-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1893 as a warehouse. Designed by George F. Pelham, it is clad in beige-yellow brick above a ground floor with black-cast iron pilasters framing stained wood infill. The pilasters have finely-carved capitals. The brick piers on the upper floors project slightly, beginning at the base of the 2nd-floor windows, except for the center pier, which begins at the top of the 2nd floor. The piers have decorative vertical grooves at the 2nd & 4th floors. The windows are grouped into pairs, with flat stone sills and rough stone lintels joining each pair. At some point, one of the windows at the 2nd floor's right-center bay was removed and the opening replaced with brick. The spandrels between the 2nd & 3rd floors are decorated with carved terra-cotta foliate panels, and a corbelled cornice divides the 4th & 5th floors. The top-floor windows are round-arched, topped by a tall brick parapet, and a tall elevator penthouse in the center of the roof line. A black iron fire escape runs down each of the outer bays.