6 West 28th Street

 Italianate style (architecture), commercial building

4-story Italianate mercantile building completed in 1855 as a brownstone rowhouse for John E. Kinnier. It became one of many posh illegal gambling halls along this stretch of street. Opened by Thomas Darden and Willard Fitzgerald c. 1890, it was later run by Shang Draper, who was described as "the king of New York's underworld."

In 1904, the building was altered for commercial uses, including the insertion of a first-story storefront and entryway, and the installation of show windows at the 2nd floor. The storefront, entryway, and show windows were replaced again in 1913 by William Lauritzen. The 2-story base projects slightly, clad in brown metal, with a building entrance at the left side of the ground floor, and a storefront with recessed central entry to the right. There is a fluted frieze and pressed-metal modillioned cornice above the ground floor, and a pressed-metal molding and actoreria above the 2nd-floor windows and their historic transoms.

The upper floors are faced in brown-painted stucco, with two bays of windows. At the 3rd floor they have bracketed sills and hoods with molded surrounds, and at the 4th floor are round-arched, with bracketed sills, molded architraves and surrounds, and splayed keystones. The facade is crowned by a dark-brown elaborate brownstone roof cornice featuring scrolled brackets, dentils and carved frieze.