307-309 Mott Street

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1868 as a pair of tenements. Both facades are four bays wide, surfaced in light blue-grey painted stucco above a ground floor of brick. There are twin entrances with black fluted and paneled cast-iron pillars and glass transoms. To the right of each doorway is a double-window with a blue-painted iron lintel. The upper-floor windows are segmental-arched, with projecting sandstone sills and cast-iron lintels. Two black wrought-iron fire escapes run down the facade, which is topped by a brick roof parapet covered with cement stucco.

The tenant roster remained overwhelmingly Italian until the upper floors of the building were vacated in the 1940s, possibly in 1941 when the building suffered a foreclosure. By 1911, the ground floor had been converted to commercial space; in 1948, the vacant second floor was rehabilitated into office space. In 1957, the upper floors were renovated and the building became an apartment building.