636 Broadway (New York City, New York) | office building

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12-story neo-Classical office building completed in 1896. Designed by George B. Post as a 10-story store-and-loft building, it is clad in buff-colored brick, granite and terra-cotta. Two floors were added to the building in 1905. The Broadway facade is three bays wide, with a 2-story granite base with carved rosettes on the top of the piers. The center bay contains three windows, with two windows in the end bays.

On the 3rd floor, the piers are rounded, and covered by light-colored terra-cotta with a cross-hatch design; the bays are recessed behind the piers. The rounded piers continue up to the 9th floor where they terminate in rotated Corinthian capitals supporting segmental-arches. The segmental-arched 10th-floor windows sit over a decorative terra-cotta molding featuring lions' faces and below a molded terra-cotta cornice. The newer top two floors re framed by brick piers and topped by a paneled parapet.

The rear facade on Crosby Street also has a 2-story granite base with non-historic ground-floor infill (cement stucco, metal gates and doors). The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick, with segmental-arches at the 9th floor, below a decorative terra-cotta molding. There is a projecting terra-cotta cornice above the 10th floor and a paneled brick parapet at the roof line.

The building housed light manufacturing operations until the mid-20th century, when it was converted to offices. The ground floor is occupied by a Duane Reade pharmacy.