Bleecker Tower (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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8-story Romanesque-revival/Queen Anne-style residential building completed in 1891. Designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch as a bank and loft building for the Manhattan Savings Institution, the facade is constructed of red cast-iron and steel framing with brick and red sandstone facing. The chamfered corner entryway features a distinctive wrought-iron fanlight grille, and the building is topped by a round turret with a conical roof.

The 2-story base is clad in rough-faced sandstone, with stone-framed double-windows in the northern bay on Broadway (which has a secondary round-arched entrance), and the angled corner bay; the remaining bays (one on Broadway and five on Bleecker) have double-height round-arches with red cast-iron spandrels and mullions. Each arch is topped by a carved stone face, and the piers supporting the arches have capitals decorated by convex circles.

The upper floors have brick piers (paneled above the 4th floor), with Corinthian capitals supporting modillioned cornices above the 4th, 7th & 8th floors. The bays between the piers have four windows, separated by red cast-iron mullions and patterned spandrels. The 6th floor has projecting bay windows in each bay, supporting by scolled brackets below, and with metal balustrades above, where the 7th floor windows are encompassed below broad, shallow segmental-arches. The corner bay has two round-arches at the 7th floor. All the 8th-floor windows are round-arched, and the cornice below this floor projects out in a semi-circle from the rounded corner, setting back to the corner turret with its single circular window and conical top. At the top of the Broadway facade, a dentiled triangular pediment surround the letters MSI, for Manhattan Savings Institution.

In 1942, the Manhattan Savings Institution, the Metropolitan Savings Bank, and the Citizens Savings Bank were merged forming the Manhattan Savings Bank, closing the branch at 644 Broadway. The upper floors were converted to house small manufacturers until the 1970s, when it was converted to loft apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Atrium apparel.