Millinery Building

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295-foot, 23-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1927. Designed by Buchman & Kahn, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 4-story base of stone and terra-cotta. Both main facades have 10 narrow bays of single-windows. The ground floor is faced in grey granite with five wide bays on each facade. The main entrance is in the northern bay on the avenue, recessed with glass doors. The other bays have metal-and-glass storefronts. Above a black metal band course, the 2nd & 3rd floors have limestone piers and spandrels, with black-metal-framed single-windows. A wide band of rusticated, painted stone tops the 3rd floor, surmounted by a patterned cornice. The 4th floor has elaborately carved piers of terra-cotta and an equally elaborate terra-cotta cornice.

The upper floors have patterned brickwork and simple stone sills at the windows. There is a band of darker brick above the 14th floor, with carved stone spandrels; the next floor also has carved spandrels, but of a different design. The first in a series of shallow cascading setbacks occurs above the 16th floor; the others are above the 17th, 19th & 21st floors. There are brick-clad mechanical penthouses above the main roof line and a brick chimney at the southeast corner. The ground floor is occupied by a Valley National Bank branch, and a Starbucks coffee.