Banner Building

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10-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1892. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel as an 8-story store-and-loft building with an elaborate iron cornice for merchant and real estate owner Peter Banner, it is clad in pale red brick and green-grey cast-iron. A two-story addition was built on top in 1898, featuring arched bays, turned columns and decorative spandrels, designed by Robert T. Lyons. The facade is divided into five bays (four on the ground floor). The entrance to the upper floors is set under a leaded glass fanlight set between scrolled brackets supporting a cornice (the rest of the cornice across the ground floor is not projected forward, and does not have the modillions seen over the doorway); the fascia board of the cornice has cast swag and rosettes. Other cornices set off the 3rd & 4th floors, 5th & 6th floors, and the upper floors.

The 2nd floor has round-arches at the tops of the windows, and red brick outer piers, which extend up to the 8th floor, broken by the various cornices. The 8th floor has an arcade of six round-arched windows, with rounded columns in between. More cast swag decorates the spandrels above the arches. A projecting iron cornice separates the two-story 1898 addition, which features arched bays, turned columns, and decorative spandrels.

Banner lost ownership of the building in bankruptcy in 1916 to the Union Dime Savings Bank, which retained possession of it until 1941. In 1974, the building housed manufacturers of ladies' apparel, sportswear, belts, handbags, thread, men's hats, paper bags, and printed cards. It later housed joint living/working quarters on the upper floors, before being converted to offices.

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