11 East 30th Street

 apartment building, commercial building

6-story Beaux-Arts residential building originally completed sometime in the mid-1800s as a rowhouse. In 1897, it was purchased by Haskel Silverman and the ground floor converted to commercial use for his women's apparel making business. He hired architect William J. Fryer to make significant changes to the previously-altered house. Fryer's update replaced the brownstone of the four upper floors with gray brick trimmed in terra-cotta. Exuberant Beaus Arts decorations--like the tangle of bows and fruits above the openings of the 3rd through 5th floors--coexisted with prim Renaissance Revival pilasters framing those of the 6th. The 2-story white-painted stone base has a deeply-recessed entrance at the left side of the ground floor, and a storefront to the right. Above the entrance the 2nd floor has a large single-window, and above the storefront is a large, wider single-pane show window.

The three bays of windows at the upper floors have stone surrounds and lintels and intricately carved ornament. At the top floor the windows are framed by ornately carved pilasters with stylized capitals. The facade is crowned by a prominent, bracketed black metal roof cornice. The ground floor and 2nd floor are occupied by Ravagh Persian Grill, while the upper floors contain apartments.