Street & Smith Building (New York City, New York)

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7-story residential building completed in 1905. Designed by Henry F. Kilburn as an office building for the Street & Smith publishing house, it was converted to loft apartments in 1938, with 64 units. It is clad in red brick, with five recessed central bays of double windows between end sections of narrower, more-widely separated double windows on the avenue side. The end sections and all of the vertical piers have projecting horizontal brick bands. The 15th Street side has the same design, but with four central bays instead of five. The ground floor has large segmental-arched openings with splayed brick lintels, and is capped by a stone cornice. At the far north side of the 7th Avenue facade is a stone entryway with double columns on each side supporting an entablature.

The upper floors have thin stone sills and wider stone lintels connecting each window pair in the recessed center section. The outer bay window pairs also have thin stone sills, but splayed brick lintels on top. The center bays at the 6th floor have splayed brick lintels as well. A stone cornice marks the base of the top floor, which has a regular row of rectangular windows grouped into pairs. A continuous stone lintel connects them all, and is topped by a dentiled stone roof cornice on both facades. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Jensen-Lewis furniture.

An addition for the publishing house was completed in 1919 on the east side. It has a similar window pattern and segmental-arches on the ground floor, and the cornices extend across the new facade, but the cladding is in a different shade of red brick, and lacks any of the banding and splayed lintels seen on the original building.

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