10 Bleecker Street

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7-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1894. Designed by John T. Williams as a factory, it has three wide bays of three windows each on Bleecker Street, and five bays on Elizabeth, with only two windows each the three middle bays. The 2-story base is clad in greyish-red brick. The piers sit on stone bases and have stone banding. A dentiled cornice caps the base section. The windows in each bay are divided by dark-green cast-iron pilasters, and there are paneled spandrels between floors.

The upper floors are clad in a more orange shade of brick. The 3rd-5th floors also have stone banding on the piers, and the same window design in each bay, capped at the 5th floor by large arches. A narrow cornice sets off the top two floors, which have square-headed windows divided by brick intermediate piers, and a brick roof parapet. A black metal fire escape runs down the center bay on Bleecker Street. Elizabeth Street has the same basic design, except there are no arches in the double-window center bays. There is another fire escape over the center bay, but the landings have rounded corners and are more decorated.

In the early- and mid-twentieth century, the building was mostly occupied by a variety of fur dealers and garment manufacturers. Around World War Two, many tool and die, woodworking, and additional garment makers began moving into the building. By the mid-1970s loft dwellers began to take over parts of the upper stories of this building that were being vacated by the garment industry. By 1980, its upper floors were completely residential; it was renovated and converted to cooperative apartments in 1986.