The Reilly Apartments

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5-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1892 as a middle-class apartment for Mary E. Kelly, a local developer. The architect was Neville & Bagge. It has a limestone basement and first floor, with rough stone rustications; these were painted dark-brown in 2022. There are carved stone panels below the first floor's two round-arched windows, and a short stoop leading up to the round-arched entrance framed by Corinthian columns and topped by intricately carved stonework, with a carved head at the peak of the arch, and a carved stone panel above reading "REILLY", after the owner and developer.

The 4-bay upper floors are clad in red brick, with brownstone band courses across the 2nd floor, and band courses forming the bases of the 3rd and 5th floors. The 2nd and top floor windows are round-arched with keystone, while those on the 3rd & 4th floors are square-headed with stone sills and splayed lintels which have been shaved flat. The two center bay windows on these floors are connected under the lintels, and a metal fire escape runs down the middle of the facade. The building is crowned by a black metal roof cornice.

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