426 Washington Street

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2-story office building completed in 1926. Designed by Charles Winkelman as an office and residence for Siemund Marine Electrical Welding company, a two-person firm. A 4-story loft building had been on the site, but an explosion destroyed the upper floors in 1922 and it was torn down. Winkelman's design is clad in red brick, with large limestone quoins at the corners. The ground-floor windows have large, splayed stone lintels and stone sills. There is a round-arched doorway with keystone near both ends of the south elevation. The 2nd-floor windows are doubled and segmental-arched, with stone sills and brick headers with keystones, except for the two end bays, which have single windows with flat stone lintels. A black modillioned cornice runs above the 2nd-floor windows. Above this, a brick parapet with a metal coping caps the roof line - in the center, a tall brick parapet extension rises up, with a curved center and dentiled brickwork at the top. A stone panel in the center of the base of this parapet echoes the rounded form of the top. Anthony Cipolla who ran an Italian Products Import Company later occupied this building.