Pierrepont Building

 apartment building, 1895_construction, movie / film / TV location, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

8-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1896. Designed by Louis Korn as a stores-and-loft building, it has quite tall show windows culminating in a 5th-story round arch. It entire facade is embellished with detailed terra-cotta ornament. Fluted and banded terra-cotta pilasters with festoon capitals flank a modern glass and metal storefront at the double-height ground floor; original iron colonnettes flanking the center window of the storefront are extant. This is surmounted by a foliated terra-cotta frieze with the name "Pierrepont" at the center.

At the 2nd floor terra-cotta end pilasters with foliated shafts and anthemion capitals are surmounted by a frieze of rosettes and acanthus leaves. Above, fluted brick pilasters with terra-cotta bases and stylized Corinthian capitals rise two stories, supporting the round arch with classical moldings at the 5th floor; garland wreaths accent the spandrels. The show windows have colonnette mullions and the spandrels between the floors are accented by festoons. The 6th through the 8th floors are flanked by pilasters which repeat the decorative elements used below; engaged colonnettes separate the windows. A rosette frieze tops the 6th floor. The windows at the 8th floor, above a festooned spandrel, have arched surrounds with keystones and egg and dart moldings. The facade is capped by a brown festooned frieze and a modillioned cornice.

The building takes its name from Edwards Pierrepont (1817-92), a prominent lawyer very active in the Democratic Party during the Civil War, who was a member of the 1867 convention for the framing of a new New York State Constitution and went on to become Attorney-General of the United States in 1875. From the 1870s until his death, Pierrepont owned the brownstone town house which formerly occupied the site of this building.

The early tenants of the building included the Art Interchange, a publisher; Haas Brothers, fabrics, as well as several upholsterers; J.L. Mott, bathroom fixtures; Quantz, kid gloves; and A.H. Rice, silks. The building was converted to residential in the late 1900s. The ground floor is occupied by UNTUCKit shirts.

The exterior sidewalk was used as a filming location for S5E5 of the Starz Network series "Power".