McCall Pattern Building (New York City, New York)

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164-foot, 10-story office building completed in 1905 for James H. Ottley. Designed by Radcliffe & Kelly as a printing house, it was originally called the McCall Pattern Building. The main facade is seven bays wide, with the western two supporting only one floor above the 3-story base, to allow light to the west side of the upper floors, which are clad in buff-colored brick.

The base has limestone piers except at the ground floor, where they are faced in stainless steel, dividing plate-glass storefronts and a central glass-doored entrance with a suspended metal-and-glass canopy. The 2nd & 3rd floors have large show-windows, with thin silver metal frames. There are four windows in each bay, except for the 4th from the east, which has a single wider pane in the middle; and the 2nd bay from the west, which has a single narrow pane in the middle (this bay itself is narrower than the others). Between the two floors, within each bay, are stone spandrels with rows of intricately-carved panels and a dentil course at the top. At the top of the 3rd floor the piers have almost-flat stylized capitals, and a simple band course caps the base.

The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick, except for the one floor at the western two bays that are faced in a lighter shade of brick, topped by a simple stone cornice. Each bay has three windows with stone sills, except for the 2nd bay from the west (at the short section), which has only two windows. A continuous band course runs below the 8th floor, in which each 3-window group forms a segmental-arch. Keystones top the center windows and support a large band course, also with stylized, rather flat brackets at the piers. The top two floors have stone enframements around the window groups. The facade is crowned by a projecting roof cornice with modillions and dentils, and brackets at the piers.

The west elevation, above the lower portion, is clad in brown brick, except for the front section of light-colored brick that extends to the first window. There are four bays of paired windows, and the cornice wraps around partly from the main facade to over the first window. The east elevation mirrors the west.

The ground floor is occupied by Danznik Studios, Flora boutique, M.J.K. Fashion, G&R Fabric, Tuva Textile, and Lightbox.