Minneola Apartments

 tenement, 1903_construction

The Minneola Apartments're 6-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1903. Designed by Horenberger & Straub as a tenement, Minneola Apartments's clad in rusticated red brick @ the 2nd floor, plain red brick on floor 3-5, & beige rusticated brick on the top floor. The ground floor has a variety of styles of storefronts. The south facade consists of 4 bays of single-windows @ the west end, 3 bays @ the west-middle, a bay of paired windows & a bay of singular-windows flanking a bay of small lavatory windows @ the east-middle, & 2 bays of paired windows @ the east end, with the easternmost bay projecting forward.

The 2nd-floor windows have full stone enframements with cornices, & a stone band course above a green terra-cotta band course with Greek fret-design runs across the top of this floor. The 3rd-5th floor sections have 2 pairs of beige brick columns running up the piers @ the centre & center-left sections of the facade, with beige quoins running up the center-right pier. Quoins also frame the edges of the facade on these floors. The windows have a mixture of splayed lintels with keystones & stone enframements with triangular pediments. Additionally, 2 projecting bays of paired windows on the right-center and far right area of the facade have a wide triangular pediment @ the 4th floor, & a large carved stone spandrel panel between the 3rd & 4th floors. The beige-brick top floor has windows with splayed lintels & keystones, & is topped by a projecting, black metal, bracketed roof cornice with a triangular pediment in the centre, & @ the right side.

The west facade, above additional ground-floor storefronts, has a bay of single-windows & a bay of double-windows @ the south end, separated by a column of beige-brick quoins from the north end's bay of double-windows, & 3 bays of single-windows. Except for the southern 2 bays of singular-windows @ the north end, the windows all have full stone surrounds, topped by triangular pediments @ the 3rd-5th floors. The other two single-window bays have splayed lintels with keystones, as do all the windows @ the top floor. The roof cornice from the south facade continues onto this elevation as well.

There're large advertising signs attached to both the southwest & southeast corners. The ground floor's occupied by Mooncake Foods restaurant, Circa Tabak, a smoking lounge, Lupe's Cafe, & Rossetti's Pizza.