Warings Building (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Varick Street, 117
 apartment building, 1870_construction

5-story residential building completed in 1870 as a warehouse. It was converted to apartments sometime in the mid-1900s, with 11 rental units. The facade is five windows wide, with white-painted corbelled-foot sills and rounded cornices. A black metal fire escape runs down the facade, and the building has a large, white-painted, detailed and modillioned roof cornice on top, with a rounded pediment in the center. The panel below the pediment bears the inscription "WARINGS BUILDING 1870".
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Coordinates:   40°43'28"N   74°0'22"W
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