35 West 36th Street

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150-foot, 12-story office building completed in 1910. Designed by Charles E. Birge, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 4-story base, with the facade split into two halves. The ground floor is white-painted stone, with a central, recessed main entrance, and storefronts on either side. The 2nd-3rd floors are framed in limestone, with beige cast-iron infill. At each half, both floors have four windows, with the outer windows framed by beige cast-iron pilasters; ornamented spandrels separate the two floors, and a patterned molding tops the upper windows. Above a band course, the 4th floor is also clad in limestone; each half has a double-window flanked by single-windows.

A small cornice sets off the upper floors, which have the same window pattern as the 4th, but with black metal pilasters separating the single-windows from the doubles.The windows have bands of brick headers, continuous stone sills on each half, and subtle ornament below the pilasters. The top floor is set off by a cornice. It has stone pilasters, and the windows are slightly smaller than on the other floors. Large console brackets on the main piers, and smaller ones on the pilasters, support a simple roof cornice. The west elevation is clad in dark-red brick, with a short limestone return at the front. It has several bays of single-windows. The ground floor is occupied by Jerusalem Cafe, and Kings Thai Boxing.