52 White Street

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5-story residential building completed in 1868. Designed by Henry Fernbach, it is composed of white cast-iron, painted grey on the ground floor, where there are Corinthian columns. The columns separating the segmental-arched upper-floor windows are Doric. The building is crowned by a bracketed and modillioned roof cornice with dentils and a triangular pediment in the center.

Among the early occupants of the building were A. Langdon & Company, a boot and shoe wholesale firm; and John McCann & Company, a Chicago firm selling woolens, dress goods, white goods, and linens. In addition to being used for the wholesale dry goods trade, the structure was later used as a factory and storage facility. In 1974 the building was legally converted to artists' joint living and working quarters; at that time a motion picture studio occupied the first floor.