Park South Lofts

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19-story residential building originally completed in 1922 as a 14-story commercial loft building. Designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag, it had a 5-story addition built on top in 2005, designed by Elkin Architecture. It a 3-story limestone base, with a tall ground floor featuring an entrance under a triangular pediment on the right. To the left is a modern storefront of black metal and glass, with double doors and windows divided into numerous small panes. There is a cobbled stone wall to the left of the door and along the base. The storefront is topped by black metal louvers.

The 2nd & 3rd floors have double-windows in the end bays, and a large tripartite window in the center, all framed by thick black iron mullions and framing, and with transoms on top. The stone spandrels are fluted, and also have have garlands in the middle of the center bay. Wrought-iron balconies and railings front each bay at both floors, and the base is capped by a cornice with an egg-and-dart molding above a central cartouche.

The original upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick, with double-windows in the end bays, and four windows in the middle, again with black metal mullions. The spandrels in the center are decorated with carved swags and foliate ornament. There is a stone cornice above the 8th floor, and another above the 10th, where the piers have stylized capitals and the first setback occurs at the outer bays.

The center bay of the 11th floor continues up to a stone cornice surmounted by a stone balustrade, behind which the entire 12th floor is set back and topped with another cornice and frieze. The 13th-14th floors are further set back. The end bays have carved spandrels between the two floors, and are topped by stone round-arched with intricate carvings. The center section is topped at the 14th floor by a large stone panel, also with intricate carvings. A cornice surmounts this floor, with triangular pediments over the end bays, marking the original roof line.

The addition, set further back above the 14th floor, is mostly hidden from the street, and clad in glass at the front, with tan pre-cast stone on the sides, with bands of windows. The west and east elevations of the lower floors are brick, with five bays all having triple-windows, except for one with double-windows. The building now contains 40 condominium units. The ground floor is occupied by The Mason Jar restaurant.