112 Madison Avenue

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150-foot, 12-story Beaux-Arts office building completed in 1913. Designed by William H. Birkmire as a store-and-lofts building, it has a 3-story limestone base, three bays wide on Madison Avenue, and with five bays on East 30th Street. Above the ground-floor storefronts, most of which still feature the patterned aluminum panels above the large show-windows, each bay has four windows on the east facade, and three windows on the north side. At the base, they have black metal frames and rounded upper corners at the 3rd floor. The stone spandrels each consist of a row of square blocks. Each pier is decorated at the top by a stone wreath, and at the center-top of each bay is a scrolled brackets supporting the band course with egg-and-dart molding that caps the base.

The shaft is clad in buff-colored brick, topped in much the same manner as the base at the 10th floor, except with more elaborate festoons on the tops of the piers. The windows are separated by paneled stone pilasters and have stone lintel bands, with brick spandrels above. The top two floors have brick piers, with 2-story stone round-arches in between, three to each bay on Madison Avenue, and two per bay on 30th Street. The arches are topped by keystones and have ornamental carvings in the spandrels and the capitals of the piers.

Both main facades are crowned by a green copper roof cornice. The western elevation is clad in plain brown brick, with no windows. The ground floor is occupied by Poliform furniture store.