Hall Building (New York City, New York)

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8-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1897. Designed by Stephenson & Greene as a store-and-loft building, it was named after its original owner, W.H. Hall, and housed furriers, embroiderers, and a feather merchant in the early part of the 20th century. It was converted to residential in the mid-20th century.

The building is faced in stone and buff-colored brick. The 2-story base is flanked by white pilasters retaining their original capitals supporting a stone frieze and dentiled cornice. The storefront contains black aluminum-framed plate glass windows and doors. The transitional 2nd floor contains a Chicago-style wood-framed window with fixed center pane and canted side windows, all below transoms; this is flanked by stone pilasters with decorative panels. The pilasters support a stone entablature with "Hall Building" applied to the frieze.

Floors 3-6 are flanked by buff-colored brick piers. Brick billet moldings frame floors 3-5; each floor contains four windows. The 3rd floor has paired wood-framed windows in the center with stone pilasters separating single windows to each side. Floors 4 & 5 each have aluminum sash windows set above continuous molded sills. The 6th-floor windows have a molded surround containing a stone sill, otherwise repeating the motifs seen below. A stone cornice supports double-height stone Corinthian pilasters that divide floors 7 & 8 into four bays, each containing aluminum-framed windows. The original dentiled and modillioned metal roof cornice surmounts the building.

The northern elevation is of exposed red brick punctuated by one bay of aluminum-framed windows, and another bay of very small windows. Above the 2nd floor a short return, including both cornices, is continued on the northern elevation. The southern elevation has similar architectural features to those on the northern elevation. The ground floor is occupied by GameStop.