Boskowitz Building

 condominium, 1895_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

10-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1895. Designed by DeLemos & Cordes as a store and warehouse, it has a grey-brown brick, limestone and terra-cotta facing. The facade is five bays wide, in three vertical stages. Stage 1 is a 3-story rusticated limestone base with a blue-painted cast-iron storefront in the center. The round-arched entrance portico in the north bay has Ionic granite columns, a molded surround, scrolled keystone, denticulated hood, and surmounting urns and pedestals. The pedimented south entryway has a decorative cartouche, scrolled brackets, and Ionic pilasters. The 2nd-floor center bay windows are separated by granite Ionic columns. The 3rd floor has round-arched windows. At the top, banner brackets bolted to the limestone support the bracketed base of the balustraded balcony at the 4th floor.

Stage 2 has four floors, with a 3-story projecting bay featuring cast-iron and terra-cotta columns, elaborate terra-cotta moldings and spandrels, and terra-cotta balconettes at the end bays of the 6th & 7th floors (with elaborate pediments), topped by a dentiled terra-cotta molding. Stage 3 has brick piers with applied terra-cotta ornamentation, lintels, spandrels, and capitals. The top-floor windows are round-arched; the facade topped by swag molding (the original roof cornice has been removed).

In the early 1900s, small manufacturers moved into the upper floors, and by the mid-1900s, the upper floors also contained offices. The original cornice was removed in 1938. The building was converted to artist's lofts in 1996-98 by architect Arpad Baksa, and a penthouse was added. The ground floor is occupied by American Apparel.

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