68 Jane Street

 Neoclassical (architecture), apartment building, 1897_construction, housing cooperative

7-story Neo-Classical cooperative-apartment building completed in 1897. Designed by David H. King, Jr. as a loft building.
It was converted to a co-op in 1975. The first two floors are built of smooth stone (ashlar) construction with low segmental arches flanking a high central arch which takes in the second floor window facing Greenwich Street. Above this point the building is of tan brick, with slender corner quoins of brick interlocking alternately of different lengths. Another high ;trch, above the one at the first floor, takes in the windows of the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, and is repeated by three arches on the Jane Street side. The top floor has a series of small, arched windows crowned by a bold classical cornice.