125 Fifth Avenue

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5-story Neo-Gothic office building originally completed in 1851 as two rowhouses. They were joined in 1923 to form the present office building. Dating from the 1921-23 alteration, its brown terra-cotta Neo-Gothic facade (designed by Irving Margon) features such elements as quattrefoil tracery, angled piers, and pinnacle. On the ground floor the shopfronts and metal and glass entrance door and transom are modern.

Above the ground floor, the facade is divided into two units by flat piers: angled piers separate each unit into a wide central bay and narrower flanking bays. A foliate molding outlines the windows and spandrel panels adorned with quattrefoils are set between the floors. At the roof line, the facade is enriched by a pair of string courses and a frieze of recessed rondels and arches with inset fleur-de-lis. Finialed pinnacles are set above the piers. The ground floor is occupied by Tumi luggage, and Rodd & Gunn boutique.