The Story House

 condominium, 1901_construction

9-story residential building completed in 1901 as a store-and-loft building. The slender facade has a 2-story limestone base that projects out slightly from the neighboring buildings on both sides. The ground floor has a sleek glass entrance on the left side, beneath a stainless steel canopy. There is a secondary door and window grouping to the right. The 2nd floor has a tripartite window with transoms; the outer panes are angled back, divided by dark-brown metal mullions. Flanking the tripartite window, the stone piers have stylized capitals above carved lions' heads holding wreaths. The base is capped by a stone cornice with an egg-and-dart molding.

The upper floors are framed by end piers banded with lighter-colored stone. From the 3rd to the 6th floor there are double-windows in the center that are projected forward, flanked by recessed side windows. The side windows are separated by metal mullions; the 3rd-floor windows have transoms on top. Between the floors are stone spandrels with egg-and-dart moldings at the tops; the spandrel in the center bays also have carved swags.

The base of the windows at the 7th floor have low balustrades, and the metal mullions give way to stone pilasters that culminate in round-arches with scrolled keystones at the 9th floor. The spandrels on these floors also have keystones. A simple parapet marks the roof line. The exposed portion of the western elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick simple windows toward the rear.

The building used to house the New York office of Frederick Warne and Company, a British publishing house known for working with children’s book authors such as Beatrix Potter. It was converted to condominiums in 2011 by the Stephen B. Jacobs Group.