316 Bowery

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4-story Italianate residential building completed in 1868. Designed by Nicholas Whyte as a store and dwelling, it features a red brick and sandstone facade, with cast-iron columns at the first and second floors, and a tile-covered mansard roof. It is four bays wide on Bowery and five bays on Bleecker, with the corner bay of each facade forming a tower that rises above the bracketed and dentiled roof cornice and the tiled mansard roof.

On Bowery, the ground floor has brown fluted cast-iron columns with white-painted infill, and there are grey-green cast-iron columns on the 2nd floor, which is divided into six windows. Both cast-iron structures on these two floors wrap around for one bay on Bleecker Street. The rest of the windows on the 2nd floor, and all of those on the 3rd floor have chamfered heads and sandstone sills. Sandstone quoins line the outer bays on both facades. Piercing the mansard are three dormers on Bowers and four more on Bleecker Street, with two red brick chimneys in between. The 4th-floor tower portion has paired round-arched windows on both sides, with a continuation of the quoins, and a black modillioned cornice.

In 1894, the building was converted to a hotel, but by 1915, it was a store and factory. By the 1960s, as the post-war decline in the city's manufacturing base left much vacant commercial space, loft dwellers began to take over the upper stories of this building. In addition, the Bleecker Street Theater Workshop was located here in the mid-1960s. The ground floor is occupied by Saxon & Parole restaurant.