Hellmuth Building

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8-story Art-Nouveau cooperative-apartment building completed in 1906. Designed by Adolph Schoeller as a factory for printing ink for Charles Hellmuth, its top four floors were leased to other businesses. In 1973 the Hellmuth firm, now known as Sleight & Hellmuth, left their headquarters of nearly 70 years, and in 1988, the building was converted to 28 cooperative apartments.

The facade is three bays wide, each with triple-windows, except for the top floor, which has four smaller windows per bay. The ground floor has rusticated painted stone piers on grey granite bases. Modern plate-glass infill replaces the entrances and storefront, and a black-and-white striped canvas canopy extends out to the sidewalk from the eastern doorway. Both of the outer bays are topped by a stone panel reading "HELLMUTH BUILDING", flanked by exceptionally ornate stone brackets with floral carvings. Above the name plates are egg-and-dart moldings, and a stone course of flowers.

The piers on the upper floors are clad in beige brick, with closer-spaced courses above the 2nd floor. Metal frames and mullions divide the windows, and the 2nd floor is capped by another band of floral carvings and egg-and-dart molding. At the upper floors, black air-conditioning vents have been cut below many of the windows. The 7th floor is surmounted by a dentiled stone cornice above triglyphs on the piers. The top floor has paired pilasters superimposed on the piers, and the facade is crowned by a projecting black metal roof cornice with brackets and dentils.

The ground floor is occupied by Lazzoni Furniture.

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