96 Spring Street

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8-story office building completed in 1900, renovated in 2005. Designed by Clinton & Russell as a store-and-loft building, it is three bays wide on Mercer Street, with five bays on Spring Street. It has a 2-story stone base with 2-story segmental-arched windows with scrolled keystones. Ornamental iron railings cover the lower portions of the 2nd-story windows. All of the ground-floor bays have storefront windows, except for the southern bay on Mercer, which has a freight entrance, and the westernmost bay on Spring, which has the office entrance set below a small, cast-iron triangular pediment supported by a pair of narrow columns.

The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick. The windows in each bay are paired and slightly recessed behind the piers, with the bays culminating on the 6th floor in the same segmental-arches seen at the 2nd floor. The top floor is set above a stone cornice, with a regular row of square-headed windows beneath a modillioned and dentiled roof cornice. The ground floor is occupied by Ben Sherman apparel.