Louis and Samuel Sachs Building (New York City, New York)

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6-story Neo-Greco residential building completed in 1889 as a store-and-loft building. Designed by Richard Berger, it was one of the last cast-iron building developed in Soho. The ground floor of the main facade facing Prince Street is five bays across, with six slightly narrower bays on the upper floors, all with handsomely designed slender columns. The cornice above the ground floor has large modillions; the cornices at the other floors do not, although they all have paired scrolled brackets at the end piers. Above the roof line's cornice rises a center triangular pediment.

Famous artist Richard Haas painted the trompe l’oeil mural on the east wall imitating the design of the building’s iron façade in 1975, which is also when the upper floors were converted to artists' work/live loft spaces. The east elevation has only two windows, one each at the 4th & 5th floors. The ground floor had been home to the Mimi Ferzt Gallery since 1993, and now David Yurman jewelry.