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8-story Neo-Renaissance office building completed in 1907 as a store-and-loft building. Designed by Thomas White Lamb, the building features two similar white brick facades of two bays on Walker Street and six bays on Cortlandt Alley. Each facade consists of a 2-story base, a 5-story midsection, and a 1-story crown. Resting on a stone water table, framed by coursed piers, and surmounted by a stone entablature, the base of each bay contains a wood storefront with transoms, a show window, a bulkhead, and paired metal doors; a paneled green metal spandrel; and a second-story window group with green metal mullions.

At the midsection, defined by continuous piers surmounted by flat arches with stone keystones, window groups rest on stone sills and alternate with simple brick spandrels. Repeating the arrangement below, the crown features a dentiled and modillioned green metal roof cornice. On the alley side is a decorative iron fire escape and shutter hardware. The exposed east elevation is a brick wall which retains some of its historic wood casement windows with transoms.

Among the building's occupants were Wolf & Brother, dry goods and fancy goods; Montgomery Ward & Company; a stationer, a printing firm, and a bookbinding company. Currently, the structure is used for light manufacturing.