Bank for Savings Building

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8-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1901 by Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz. It is clad in limestone, buff-colored brick and terra-cotta, with a 3-bay front facade. The ground floor has three arches filled by a modern glass-and-metal storefront, although the two original black cast-iron columns supporting the arches remain. The stone outer piers are banded and sit on granite bases; they have Ionic capitals with swags at the top of the 1st floor, supporting a cornice with a row of circles, an egg-and-dart molding, and a course of seven small lions' heads.

The 2nd floor has three window openings with segmental-arched transoms (the center is a double-window). They are framed by stone piers with wider but shorter banding than on the ground floor, and have keystones. At each pier a console bracket supports a cornice with a Greek fret-motif. The 3rd-7th floors are faced in coursed brick. Each floor has a center double-window and single-windows in the end bays, all with square-headed transoms and keystones breaking the coursing. Above the center window on the 3rd floor is a cartouche, flanked by brackets supporting a stone balcony with iron railing at the 4th floor. The 7th-floor openings also have segmental-arched tops. At the top of the 7th floor, paired brackets support a projecting full-width balcony with iron railing.

The top floor is faced in stone with three joined round-arched windows with keystones and a dentil course running above them. A bracketed stone roof cornice caps the facade. The western elevation is faced in white stucco with three bays of windows toward the rear. A large, round water tank is visible on the roof. The building was converted to condominiums in 1998. The ground floor is occupied by a Key Bank branch.