83-85 White Street (New York City, New York)

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5-story Neo-Grec office building completed in 1882 as a store-and-loft building. Designed by J. Morgan Slade, the red-painted, cast-iron Neo-Grec facade is composed of paneled pilasters with stylized Ionic capitals, shouldered arches, banded piers, and prominent sill courses. A red-painted iron fire escape covers four of the bays.

The ground floor retains its original cast-iron storefront framing elements (painted grey) including banded and partially fluted Ionic columns and piers supporting an entablature. A multipane wood transom remains and a roll-down shutter, with a foundry mark which reads "Cornell Iron Works," is extant in the second bay from the east.

This building was typically used by dry goods firms for offices, storage, and workrooms, including in the 1890s the offices of M. Cohen Son & Company, a firm based in Petersburg, Virginia. In the 1940s and '50s the building was owned by the Chase Brass & Copper Company. From the 1980s, it was occupied by the United Journal Company.