60 Grand Street (New York City, New York)

 apartment building, 1896_construction

7-story Neo-classical residential building completed in 1896. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel as a store, along with its neighbors 62 & 64 Grand Street. Above a cast-iron ground floor, it has a rusticated beige-brick pier running up each side, with four windows on each floor separated by a thin white metal pilaster. The spandrels between floors are decorated by intricate carved terra-cotta panels. The top-floor windows are round-arched, and the building is capped by a projecting roof cornice. The exposed western wall is clad in brown brick and bears the remnants of a painted Coca-Cola advertisement. The ground floor is occupied by CP Shades women's apparel. The roof of this building features the sculpture Water Tower, a translucent cylinder created in 1998 by Rachel Whiteread.