80 White Street

 office building, 1860s construction, Italianate style (architecture)

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6-story Italianate/Neo-Grec office building completed in 1868 as a store-and-loft building. Designed by Henry Engelbert, it was constructed for Elias S. Higgins & Co., carpet dealers. The white marble facade facing White Street has six bays of window openings per story, with segmental-arched heads at the 2nd-5th floors and round-arched heads at the 6th floor. Pilasters which flank the windows and the sill courses receive unusual stylized detailing evocative of the neo-Grec style. Quoins mark the corners of the building. A bracketed and dentiled sheet-metal cornice caps the facade.

The ground floor retains its original cast-iron storefront framing members, although the capitals have been removed from the fluted columns. The Cortlandt Alley (west) elevation has a one-bay return from the main facade. Simple, tall brick arcades are delineated on the remainder of this elevation. A brick corbel table is found above the 4th floor. There is a cast-iron-framed loading bay at the north end of the ground floor.

After Elias Higgins' carpet business moved out, the building was used for storage, office, and shipping purposes. Currently, the General Hardware Manufacturing Company occupies the building.