Burton Building

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12-story Beaux-Arts office building completed in 1915. Designed by Starrett & Van Vleck for the Burton Bros. Company, which was founded by Frank V. and Robert L. Burton in 1890; they were cotton goods manufacturers. They were located downtown at 384 Broadway from 1894 until moving into their own building here in 1915. They moved out in the 1950s.

The building has a 3-story white-painted stone base, with quoins at the corners. The 5th Avenue facade is three bays wide, with seven bays on 29th Street. The bays are all grouped into 2-story units by brown-painted molded surrounds at the 1st-2nd floors, except at the east end of the south elevation, where there is a garage door at the ground floor with a smaller window to its left. The 2nd floor has all tripartite windows with black iron mullions; the 3rd floor has double-windows with stone sills and keystones. The base is capped by a dentiled cornice.

The shaft is clad in brown brick, with double-windows, including round-arched windows at the 11th floor. All the windows have stone sills, and there are stone lintels above the 4th-floor windows. Stone spandrels separate the 10th & 11th floors within the 2-story arches near the top. Above the modillioned roof cornice, a series of narrow, vertical parapet extensions line the edges of the building.

The north elevation matches the other facades, with a full, tall parapet wall above the roof cornice, extending almost to the western edge of the roof. The eastern elevation is all clad in brown brick, with keyed stone returns from the south facade at the lower three floors. It is three bays wide, with arched fanlight windows at the 2nd floor. Above, the northernmost pane of the double-windows in the northern bays have been filled in. The tall parapet wall extends across the northern half of the roof line, with one of the parapet extensions above the pier to the south.

The ground floor is occupied by Investors Bank.

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