Cammeyer Building

 condominium, 1892_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

6-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1892. Designed by Hubert, Pirsson, & Hoddick as a store-and-loft building, it was named after A.J. Cammeyer, an early lessee listed in 1897 and 1899, who operated a shoe store here. The building has a 2-story white stone base, with four floors of red brick above, capped by a green copper roof cornice.

The base is articulated by giant order white stone pilasters supporting an entablature. On Sixth Avenue, the pilasters divide the facade into five bays. Above the ground-floor shopfronts (which have transoms above canvas awnings) are metal panels with pressed swags supporting three windows with metal mullions. The red brick facing begins at the 3rd floor. The windows are smaller, and the bays divided by pedestals which support pilasters above.

Floors 4 & 5 are framed by giant order Corinthian pilasters, while stubby Ionic pilasters frame each window. The spandrels are faced in ornamental metal panels. Sinuous wrought-iron balconies are placed in the center bays of the 4th & 5th floors, with raised corbels supporting a dentiled cornice over the 5th floor. The 6th-floor windows are round-arched. Rounded Corinthian colonnettes divide the windows. A stone belt course supports a heavy, bracketed, green copper cornice that completes the composition.

The West 20th Street facade is virtually identical to that on Sixth Avenue, except that it is seven bays wide rather than five. The eastern bay contains a service entrance.

In 2007, it was converted to condominiums. The ground floor is occupied by the Men's Wearhouse, General Nutrition Center, Blick Art Materials, and a FedEx Office.

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