Haggin Building

 office building, condominium, 1897_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

159-foot, 11-story Neo-Classical office/condominium building completed in 1897. Designed by John Townsend Williams, it is clad in buff-colored brick and stone. The building has exquisite detailing, especially around the cornice and upper floors. The west half of the 2-story base has brick piers with cast-iron spandrels and mullions. The eastern half, including the facade facing Broadway, is white stone, with round-arches on the ground floor that have pairs of smaller round-arched set within. The 2nd floor has paired rectangular windows, with intricate carved details around the frames, and on the cornice capping the base, as well as in the ground floor arches. Cartouches also decorate the tops of the piers at the ground floor.

The brick upper floors have carved stone details lining each pier, and the mullions between each window pair also have ornate carvings. A projecting cornice with double dentils wraps around the eastern half of the building above the 9th floor. The top floor has round-arched windows and is crowned with a simple roof cornice.