250 Mercer Street, Building A

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8-story Romanesque-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1895. Designed by Julius Kastner as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in light-grey painted cast-iron, orange brick, and brown stone. The ground floor has floral designs on the cast-iron, and a dentiled cornice running across the top. On the 2nd & 3rd floors the brick piers are banded with rough stone; the windows are recessed, with cast-iron pilasters and intricate cast-iron spandrel panels featuring small arches, columns and dentils at the northern section of the facade. A dentiled stone cornice caps the 3rd floor. The 4th-7th floors have the same design, only without the banding on the piers. Above another dentiled stone cornice, the top floor has round-arched windows, with a crenelated parapet at the roof line. The building was converted by Henry George Greene in 1979 to a cooperative-apartment complex that also includes the other eight buildings on the block. The ground floor is occupied by a portion of the Dojo restaurant.