The Music Building

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151-foot, 12-story Neo-Gothic office building completed in 1928. Designed by John B. Snook & Sons, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base, three bays wide. The ground floor has a recessed entrance in the middle bay, with rather mundane metal doors. The outer bays have metal-and-glass storefronts. The upper part of the ground floor has bands of windows in each bay, with the middle bay having a black cast-iron spandrel with a blind arcade of pointed-arches between the doorway and upper windows. The 2nd & 3rd floors have tripartite show-windows with transoms. Below each floor is a stone spandrel with ornamental Gothic-inspired panels, consisting of shields set within quatrefoils.

The upper floors have paired windows in the end bays and triple-windows in the middle bay, divided by brown iron mullions. At the top floor the two central brick piers rise to cast-stone Gothic caps, with small shields above, and an ornamental cast-stone roof parapet.

The north elevation is clad in red-orange brick with multiple bays of paired windows. The building was named The Music Building in 1979, when it was converted to house 69 rehearsal studios exclusively leased to musicians of all genres on a monthly basis. Prior to reaching stardom, artists such as Madonna, Blondie, Billy Idol, and Metallica, rehearsed and refined their first hits in Music Building studios. The ground floor is occupied by Money Change, ESmoke Shop & Convenience, and Bing Bong Smoke Shop.