632 Broadway (New York City, New York)

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12-story neo-Classical office building completed in 1900. Designed by Robert Maynicke as a store-and-loft building, it has a 4-story limestone base (two stories on Crosby Street). There are twin north and south entrances with granite pilasters and projecting hoods with dentils flanking a historic show window. The 2nd floor has a triple-window in the center bay, with single-window end bays; this is echoed in the floors above, which each have three-window center bays and single-window end bays. The 2nd floor is capped by a dentiled cornice, and has splayed lintels with keystones above the end-bay windows, which are both flanked by classical carved ornament.

The 3rd-4th floors, like the bottom two, are rusticated, with splayed lintels and keystones above each of the 4th-floor windows. There are panels with carved garlands between these two floors. The base is capped by a cornice with a Greek-fret motif above an egg-and-dart course.

On the upper floors the brick outer bays are rusticated up through the 10th floor, and all of the windows have full stone enframements. The 11th-floor windows are round-arched and topped by large brackets supporting a projecting cornice, above which rises the top floor, in turn topped by a projecting roof cornice with modillions and dentils.

The rear facade on Crosby Street has a 2-story limestone base with white cast-iron spandrels and cast-iron infill on the ground floor. The piers have decorative caps. Above a cornice, the upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick, with three bays of paired windows that have simple stone sills and lintels; the northernmost opening on each floor has been filled in. Above a small cornice the top floor windows are round-arched, and the roof line is marked by a cement stucco-covered parapet.

The building was continously used for light manufacturing into the mid-20th century. The upper floors are now occupied by offices, while the ground floor is occupied by Petsmart.