Tribeca Blu Hotel

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9-story Renaissance-revival hotel completed in 1899 as an office building. Designed by Jordan & Giller, it features an 8-bay facade on Canal Street and a 2-bay facade on Broadway. The bays are virtually identical except for that containing the monumental entrance at the third bay from the east on Canal Street. The 2-story limestone base (obscured at the ground story by alterations) features coursed piers, pilaster-framed round-arched window openings with carved spandrels in groups of three, and a modillioned stone entablature. The only exception is the main entrance bay, which still displays its limestone facing and polished granite water table and features a second-story stone portico with double Corinthian columns framing paired round-arched windows and supporting a balustrade bearing the year of construction, 1898.

The midsection of each facade consists of a limestone-faced transitional story with an entablature and four buff-colored brick-faced additional stories which are grouped within giant arcades; at each floor there are tripled pilaster-framed window openings. Decorated spandrels and elaborate iron tie-rod plates also distinguish this section. Above a string course is the 2-story crown, differentiated from the midsection by the use of paired pilasters supporting terra-cotta plaques and flattened arches; it is surmounted by a modillioned copper cornice.

Additional surviving historic fabric includes an iron subway entrance and an elaborate iron fire escape on the Canal Street facade. The south elevation is a brick wall which retains several wood sash windows and a painted sign advertising a fire alarm company; the east elevation is a simple brick wall. The original ornamental piers flanking he Canal Street entrance were set back closer to the wall in 1917.

The upper stories of the building have been used for the manufacture, display, and sale of merchandise. The building was converted into a boutique hotel called Tribeca Blu in 2012, with 70 guest rooms.