Goodstein Building

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150-foot, 11-story Beaux-Arts office building completed in 1904. Designed by Robert Maynicke as a store-and-loft building, it extends through the block to 10 West 20th Street. The 19th Street facade is 6 bays wide, while the 20th Street facade is only five; otherwise the facades are almost identical, clad in buff-colored brick and terra-cotta.

On both facades, the 2-story base is divided by buff-colored rusticated brick piers set on marble pedestals. Each bay is double-height and terminates in a segmental-arch with large voussoirs and terra-cotta keystones. Projecting, 3-sided kalamein-faced show windows occupy the four central bays of the West 19th Street facade. The twin doors of the entrance at 11 West 19th Street are divided by an engaged cast-iron fluted Ionic column and crowned by a bracketed cornice with cresting. The 2nd-floor window openings are segmental-arched. Terra-cotta consoles decorated by swags support an elaborate cornice above the2nd floor.

The rustication is on a smaller scale on the 3rd floor, and the bays are slightly recessed in relation to the piers. The windows are grouped two to a bay, with rusticated brick mullions separating them. Cartouches crown each pier, and a thin cornice separates the 3rd floor from the 4th.

Floors 4-9 are treated in a similar fashion to the 3rd floor. The bays in this section are terminated at the 9th floor by segmental-arches with voussoirs and lion-head keystones. Cartouches and swags decorate the intervening piers, all supporting a thin cornice. The spandrels of the 10th and 11th floors are brought forward flush with the piers, giving the windows a deeply recessed appearance. While the 10th-floor window openings are treated in a similar fashion to those below (with the addition of keystones), the 11th-floor windows have bracketed sills, segmental-arches, and oversized keystones. A dentiled and bracketed cornice completes the composition. The ground floor is occupied by Pottery Barn.

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