419 Lafayette Street

 condominium, 1893_construction

8-story Romanesque/Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1893. Designed by Alfred Zucker as a warehouse, it is three bays wide. The 2-story limestone base has rusticated piers with Corinthian capitals, and and crowning terra-cotta cornice with egg-and-dart molding.

The upper floors have windows grouped in triples below multi-story arches. The buff-colored brick piers are rusticated, and the floors have paneled brick spandrels, denticulated sills, wooden columns, and terra-cotta ornamentation such as bands, cartouches, foliated blocks, keystones, and moldings. The top floor has three small round-arched windows in each bay. On the north elevation, the rusticated limestone and buff-colored brick carries over for a small area; the rest is clad in dark brown brick, with segmental-arched windows. There are long, narrow black metal balconies near the roof level. The building is crowned by a light-green iron roof cornice with large brackets and acanthus, wrapping around partly onto the north facade.

In 1901, it was converted to offices and the printing shop of Winthrop Press, and in 1927, was occupied by small manufacturing firms. Around 1970, it was converted to joint living/working quarters, and currently serves as condominiums. The ground floor is occupied by Barry's NoHo Bootcamp.