The Brooks Van Horn Condominium (New York City, New York)

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6-story residential building completed in 1911. Designed by Rouse & Goldstone as a commercial loft building for The Brooks Van Horne Company - a theatrical costume manufacturer - it spans through the block to 17th Street. Both facades are clad in buff-colored brick above cast-iron ground floors, with similar design.

The 17th Street elevation has a modern black-painted metal-and-glass storefront, framed at the ends by the original entrances in brown cast-iron, and topped by a brown cast-iron lintel. Each entrance has narrow decorated pilasters with console brackets supporting a rounded pediment. Framing the pilasters are wider ornamented piers with rope moldings at the tops, framing a transom that is also surrounded by a rope molding. At the western entrance, the transom's glass has been replaced by an iron panel. Brick piers divide the upper floors into three bays of three windows each, with joined stone sills and paneled brick spandrels. At the top floor, the bays culminate in broad, shallow segmental-arches with keystones. Decoration at the tops of the piers include diamond shapes and circles above arrowheads. A projecting metal roof cornice modillions, dentils and a carved frieze crowns the facade.

The 18th Street elevation also has a modern storefront in the center of the ground floor. The entrances are much plainer, with a modern doorway at the west and a service entrance at the east. Thick iron piers, banded and fluted, with stylized capitals bracket the ground floor and support the brown iron lintel above. The upper floors are divided into a central bay of four windows, and double-window end bays. The 2nd floor has stone bases and rough stone banding on the brick piers, with a broad stone cornice ornamented by stone garlands at the piers. The windows are taller than those on the upper floors, but all the windows are divided by brown iron columns, fluted at the top half. Each bay at the upper floors has stone sills and lintel courses. Like the opposite facade, the bays culminate in segmental-arches at the 6th floor, although these lack the keystones and ornament on the piers. The roof cornice is also different: it is brown metal with triple brackets above each pier, and circles in the fascia board between the brackets.

The building now contains 35 condominium units. The ground floor is occupied by West Elm furniture and home accessories.

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