131 Prince Street

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7-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1903. Designed by W. Pigueron as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in white brick above a 2-story limestone base. The brick piers are rusticated with bands, dividing the facade into five bays of double-windows, and there is paneling in the spandrels between floors. The 6th-floor windows are segmental-arched and set just below a projecting cornice with metal brackets. Above, the top floor has pairs of round-arched windows recessed between the piers. The building is crowned by a modillioned and dentiled roof cornice.

In the early 1900s, it was the New York regional office of Students for a Democratic Society. In 1970, avant-garde jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman launched Artists House here, "a combination performance space, recording studio, clubhouse, and apartment". It was converted to a cooperative-apartment building in 2004. The ground floor is occupied by Folli Follie accessories, and Uno de 50 jewelry.