85 Walker Street

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5-story Italianate/Second-Empire style residential building completed in 1869 as a store-and-loft building. Designed by Henry Fernbach, it is clad in sandstone above the ground floor. The facade has three bays of window openings per story with rusticated, segmental-arched heads. A sheet-metal cornice with dentils between the brackets caps the facade.The ground floor retains its original cast-iron storefront framing members supporting an entablature, with infill of historic wood show windows and transoms and paneled wood doors with sidelights. A black metal fire escape spans most of the facade.

At the turn of the century the building was shared by an umbrella manufacturer and a cigar manufacturer. It was later used as a store, and for storage and showroom purposes, and is currently residential.