184 Fifth Avenue

 office building, 1870s construction

8-story office building originally completed in 1873 as a 7-story store-and-loft building. It received an additional floor in 1911 when the facade was refaced in white terra-cotta to a design by John Corley Westervelt. There are windows bands of five windows on each floor above the 1st. The ground floor has modern storefronts in the middle and northern bays, under a paneled frieze. A modern building entrance framed in polished black granite in the southern bay covers the frieze.

A terra-cotta cornice separates the ground floor from the upper floors. Two terra-cotta piers rise from the 2nd floor to the roof line, flanking the window bands. Decorated terra-cotta spandrels separate the floors. The bracketed and modillioned white metal roof cornice is not the original.