Weld Building (New York City, New York)

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198-foot, 14-story office building completed in 1897. Designed by George B. Post, it has three bays on its Broadway facade, with 11 bays on East 12th Street. The 2-story base has large rusticated stone piers with small decorative capitals featuring egg-and-dart moldings, topped by rosettes. The piers extend the full two floors on the west side of the 12th Street elevation, but are interrupted by a stone, metal and glass storefront at the eastern four bays and on Broadway. In the window bays, there are brown cast-iron spandrels between the two floors, and the base is capped by a stone cornice with egg-and-dart molding.

The 3rd-4th floors mostly mirror the base, with rusticated piers (although the pattern of the banding is different, and they have Corinthian capitals) and cast-iron spandrels. In place of a cornice, the 4th floor is topped by a stone balcony supported by paired brackets at each pier, with an iron railing, wrapping around both main facades. The brick piers of the 5th-11th floors project out at 45-degree angles, with intricately carved spandrels. The bays culminate at the 11th floor in concave round-arches on Corinthian capitals. The crown of the building is framed above and below by broadly projecting dentiled cornices. The 12th-13th floors have fluted Corinthian columns and round-arched windows with keystones. A smaller cornice separates the 13th floor from the top floor.

The south-facing wall is clad in plain beige brick, with square windows on the east side of the top eight floors. The ground floor is occupied by Broadway Kitchens & Baths, Second Hand Rose Music, and Ribalta restaurant.