268 Bowery | apartment building

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1871. Designed by D. & J. Jardine as a store and tenement. It stands out on the Bowery because of its yellow color. The yellow façade is clad in Dorchester stone, a sandstone from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada, that was especially popular in the 1870s and 1880s. This building retains many original features, such as its window hoods, brackets, cornice and ironwork.

In the early 1880s, it was converted for hotel use and opening as the Great Northern Hotel and later the Windsor Lodging House, which was notorious for thieves. It was converted to apartments sometime in the mid-1900s.

The ground floor is occupied by Roger & Sons kitchen equipment.