16 East 18th Street

 apartment building, 1902_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

109-foot, 10-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1902. Designed by Buchman & Fox as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in limestone. The 2-story base is flanked by rusticated piers, has a tripartite show window on the 2nd floor, and capped by a modillioned cornice. The center window of the 3rd floor is capped by a triangular pediment.

The midsection of the building is articulated by a vertical bay rising from the 4th to the 7th floor, where it culminates in a segmental-arch topped by a keystone. The bay is framed by rectangular inset panels at the sides and ornamental inset voussoirs forming the top of the arch. Each floor has four windows, paired at the center, separated by iron mullions with Ionic capitals, and the floors are separated by iron mullions. There are decorative iron grilles spanning the bases of the 7th-floor windows.

The 8th floor has four single-pane windows, paired at the center, which are separated by channeled piers. Above, the crown of the uilding is stacked with classical elements. The 8th floor is surmounted by a modillioned cornice with scrolled end brackets topped by a stone balustrade, and the 9th-floor windows are set in molded stone surrounds supporting a cornice topped with another balustrade. At the 10th floor the window openings are set in molded surrounds, topped at the center by a triangular pediment intersected by a molded string course. Another string course caps the parapet. The western elevation, clad in brick, has a projecting chimney, and windows with metal shutters.

Early tenants of the building included companies selling cloaks and suits, buttons, Oriental goods, as well as publishers and a dressmaker. It was converted to apartments around the 1980s.