11 Beach Street

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10-story residential building completed in 1899 as a storage and manufacturing building. It is L-shaped, wrapping around the slightly shorter corner building. Both the facades fronting Beach & Varick Streets, as well as the rear portion facing narrow St. Johns Lane, are clad in buff-colored brick, with rustications and stone cornices on the ground and 2nd floors. The rectangular windows are paired, with two bays of single windows in the center of the rear elevation, both of which have been bricked-in. The windows have simple stone sills and splayed brick lintels, larger and more prominent on the 2nd floor. Above a dentiled string course at the 8th floor, the top two floors have double windows with twin projecting brick piers between each group. There are decorative, but restrained, brickwork panels in the spandrels between the top two floors. A grey modillioned roof cornice caps the facades. The far northern bay on the eastern (St. Johns) elevation has black iron balconies.

In the mid-1900s, it was converted to offices. Then in 2014, it was redeveloped into residential, with 27 condominium units. The renovation was designed by BKSK Architects.