334 Bowery

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8-story Neo-Classical residential building completed in 1909. Designed by Charles M. Straub as a store-and-loft building, its facade is beige brick with a wrought-iron fire escape. It is divided into two bays of paired windows. The 2nd & 3rd floors have banded brick piers with foliate terra-cotta capitals, and grouped windows separated by cast-iron columns. Above the 2nd-floor windows is an iron cornice with swags and molded crown, and there is a decorated terra-cotta course beneath the 3rd- floor windows, which have decorative segmental terra-cotta arches with figured keystones.

The 4th-7th floors have brick piers, terra-cotta capitals and bases with decorative corbels; terra-cotta lintels with foliate cartouches, as well as projecting sills decorated with a Greek key pattern, decorated segmental terra-cotta arches at 7th floor with figured keystones, and spandrels decorated with dogtooth courses. The top floor has banded brick piers, terra-cotta capitals, paired round arched windows, terra-cotta lintels with figured keystones, and a terra-cotta medallion on the center pier. The original roof cornice has been removed and replaced with cement stucco.

The exposed upper parts of the south wall is clad in brick, and the north wall faced with smooth stucco; both have square-headed windows. There is a large, round water tower at the rear of the roof. Around 1970, most of the commercial tenants were replaced by residential apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Forcella Pizza.