St. Cloud Building (New York City, New York)

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9-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1904. Designed by William G. Pigueron, it is faced in white brick and limestone. The building has a 2-story, peaked, limestone base which features two paneled pilasters supporting a dentiled entablature. A wide, segmental-arched, 2nd-story opening with scrolls - spanned by a projecting peaked and dentiled cornice - is divided into three sections by small pilasters. The arch is surmounted by a shield.

The 5-story shaft is framed within end piers of coursed white brick and crowned by a terra-cotta segmental arch with central cartouche, coffered soffit with rosettes, and end brackets supporting a dentiled cornice. Paneled horizontal bands separate the floors, each of which is divided into three bays by pilasters identical to those on the 2nd floor. Each central bay has a central window flanked by two narrower ones; end bays have one window each.

The 2-story upper section of the facade is framed by Ionic pilasters with ornate shafts on pedestals. The window bays, pilasters, and intermediate horizontal bands duplicate those of the lower floors. A metal cornice, painted black, tops the facade. The western elevation is a brick wall; former window openings on the upper floors have been bricked up. A rooftop water tower can be seen from the street.

Early tenants included George Blackburne & Company, the Livingston Press, Chic Parisien and La Mode Parisienne magazines, Boston Dairy Lunch, architects, and merchants of ladies' garments, lace curtains, embroidery, and dressmaker supplies. The ground floor is occupied by Barbering by Marcus.