The NoHo Star Building (New York City, New York)

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8-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1896 as a warehouse. Designed by George Keister, it is clad in buff-colored brick over a white cast-iron ground floor. The Lafayette Street facade spans six bays of paired windows, with round-arched windows on the top floor. There are shallow cornices above the 2nd and 5th floors; the ends of the 5th floor cornice (at the end bays) are projecting, with corbels.

On the north facade, the eastern portion (with two windows) is clad in the same brick as the Lafayette side, but the western portion (a double-window flanked by single windows) is clad in a darker grey brick. The cornices and round-arched top-floor windows continue on this facade, as does the green brackets roof cornice, which also has modillions at the end bays. The windows of the 2nd & 3rd floors are framed by green cast-iron columns and spandrels (as is the northernmost bay on the Lafayette Street elevation's 2nd floor). The wester elevation is faced in white smooth stucco, with three bays of windows and a very tall round rooftop water tower.

By 1914, the building was in use as a factory - a purpose it continued to serve until being converted to condominiums in the late 1980s. The ground floor was occupied by The NoHo Star restaurant until it closed in 2018.