Everett Building

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272-foot, 20-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1915. Designed by Starrett & Van Vleck, its front facade is five bays wide, clad in buff-colored brick above a 4-story base. The ground floor is faced in white travertine with a central, round-arched, recessed entrance. On either side are lower storefronts with rounded corners, framed in dark-brown metal bands. There are pairs of light fixtures on the wall above the upper corner of both storefronts. A dentiled band course, with a projecting cornice at the center bay, caps the ground floor. The cornice forms a sill for the 2nd-floor center window, which has a stone surround and narrow console brackets supporting another cornice on top. The 2nd-3rd floors are faced in painted limestone, and there is another single-window in the center bay of the 3rd floor. The outer bays are joined into large window groups of four sections; the outer windows of each group are separated by slender colonnettes and have multiple panes. Black iron spandrels with ornate foliate decoration divide the two floors. A dentiled cornice sets off the 4th floor, which has single-windows in each bay, elaborate carvings on the limestone piers, and a decorative band course across the top.

The upper floors are organized into five bays of 3-over-2 windows; the shaft is grouped into 2-story sections, each delineated by string courses across the facade. Within each 2-story section, the windows are grouped together in their respective bays by brick outlines, with stone sills, and stone spandrel panels between them. The northwest corner of the shaft is slightly rounded. The 15th floor breaks the pattern of doubled floors, and is faced in stone, with a string course above and below. The 17th floor has round-arched windows, and a corbelled cornice caps the 18th floor. The 20th floor is set back and capped by a simple coping. Above rises a sloped tile roof, angling toward a center ridge from all four sides.

The west elevation is also clad in brick, with four bays of paired windows flanked by end bays with single-windows. The string courses continue around onto this facade, and the end-bay windows at the 17th floor are round-arched. The ground floor is occupied by Maison Kayser bakery.

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