Taylor Building (New York City, New York)

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198-foot, 16-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1911. Designed by Louis Korn and Maximilian Zipkes as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in white stone and terra-cotta. The 2-story base is articulated by rusticated stone piers supporting a stone cornice. The ground floor contains an entrance at the east end flanked by marble panels, and covered by a rounded metal canopy. The four center openings contain display windows projecting to the building line capped with metal roofs, each with an entrance. Below each window is the remnant of metal grillwork, and each window is topped by tripartite transoms separated by metal mullions that support metal spandrel panels. The west end of the facade contains a freight entrance with a classically-inspired surround topped by a dentiled segmental-arch supported by consoles.

The transitional 3rd floor is faced in stone and contains single-windows in the end bays. Each of the four center bays contains three recessed windows separated by stone pilasters and flanked by cartouches. Floors 4-11 are faced in white brick, rusticated at each end. The end window surrounds of the 4th floor are classically inspired with projecting lintels supported by brackets; the openings above are surrounded with terra-cotta panels. The center bays continue the window pattern seen below with terra-cotta sills containing bezant ornament and brick spandrel panels.

The 12th floor is faced in terra-cotta. The window openings at each end are flanked with decorative terra-cotta panels containing roundels and masks; the four center bays are flanked by terra-cotta piers supporting the dentiled cornice, which caps this section of the facade. Floors 13-15 are articulated by triple-height piers faced in terra-cotta and crowned by cartouches that support a narrow cornice. The windows, separated by terra-cotta spandrel panels, repeat the pattern seen below. The piers of the 16th floor contain large metal consoles supporting a dentiled and bracketed black metal roof cornice.

The eastern elevation, seen above neighboring buildings on West 22nd Street, is of exposed brick punctuated by multi-pane windows. The western elevation continues this pattern. The building was fully renovated in 2013. The ground floor is occupied by WTHN Acupuncture Clinic, Silver Mirror Facial Bar, and TOTO Gallery.