423 Broome Street

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7-story Queen Anne-style residential building completed in 1884. Designed by D. & J. Jardine for the Scovill Manufacturing Company, it is clad in grey stone and cast-iron on the first two floors, and red brick above. The ground floor has rusticated outer piers and fluted columns with small Corinthian capitals, organized into three bays. Above a cornice, there are red terra-cotta carvings decorating the facade at the spandrels and the bases and capitals of the piers, which are divided into two 2-story groups. The 6th floor is topped by a bracketed and modillioned black metal cornice with a triangular pediment. Above, the top floor, which was added in 1923, rises to a simple metal cornice and brick roof parapet.

Besides Scovill, the building was occupied by a variety of commercial and institutional interests over the years. 423 Broome Street was converted to joint living/work quarters for artists on its upper floors in 1983. The ground floor is occupied by Nanette Lepore women's apparel.