299 West 4th Street

 apartment building, Federal style (architecture), 1820s construction

3-story Federal-style residential building originally completed in 1828 as a 2.5-story townhouse for Samuel Z. Smith. The chief interest of the Bank Street flank consists of the brickwork which shows traces of the original sloping shoulder of the pitched roof. The most notable feature of this original house is to be found in the blocked Federal lintels with foliate forms carved in the center and end blocks. These windows may be seen on the Bank Street side. Equally evident is the fact that the building originally was only half as deep as it is today, although an extension had already been built by the 1850s, when it was already a commercial property. The ground floor on the 4th Street side is occupied by Le Fanion pottery & antiques.