Stanwick Building (Irish Repertory Theatre)

 theatre, condominium

133-foot, 12-story residential building completed in 1913. Designed by Frederick C. Zobel as a warehouse, it has a 3-story base framed in limestone. The infill is black cast-iron, with a cornice above the ground floor, and ornamented spandrels between the 2nd & 3rd floors, which are divided into six windows by narrow pilasters. The center pilaster is larger and decorated with a vertical band of interlocking rings. The ground floor windows and doors have tall transoms; the 2nd floor has shorter transoms.

The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick with three simple window openings on each half of the facade, joined by continuous stone sills. A band course with egg-and-dart molding sets off the top two floors, which have similar windows. There are thinner projecting piers at these floors, extending slightly above the roof parapet.

The lower floors are occupied by the Irish Repertory Theatre, which opened here in 1995. It stages the works of Irish and Irish-American classic and contemporary playwrights, encourages the development of new works focused on the Irish and Irish-American experience, and produces the works of other cultures interpreted through the lens of an Irish sensibility.

www.irishrep.org