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150-foot, 12-story Neo-Renaissance/Romanesque office building completed in 1913. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in buff-colored brick and terra-cotta above a 3-story limestone base. At the ground floor the inner piers have been covered by metal panels, and the end piers are painted dark-grey, with grey granite bases. The main entrance is in the east end of the east bay, recessed with metal-framed glass double-doors and a transom. The rest of this bay has a metal-and-glass storefront with glass double-doors, wide sidelights, and transom. The west bay is a mirror image, but with a service entrance at the end, with black metal doors. The center bay also has glass double-doors between plate-glass windows, and brown canvas awnings top the commercial space at each bay. The 2nd & 3rd floors have 4-over-3 windows in all three bays; the top panes across each bay at the 3rd floor are shorter. Stone spandrels between floors are decorated with simple rectangular outlines - three to each bay. The base is capped by a stone band course.

The 4th-10th floors have 4-over-2 windows, and outlined rectangles on the brick piers and spandrel panels. The facade is dotted by some protruding air-conditioning units. At the 10th floor the piers have stylized stone capitals, and a cornice sets off the top two floors. These have three single-windows in each bay, segmental-arched at the 12th floor. There are terra-cotta pilasters between the windows and matching spandrels between these floors. The piers are brick, and the same capitals appear again at the 12th floor, below a stone roof cornice with an egg-and-dart molding. The capitals extend a short way above the cornice at each pier, ending in four gently curved tops.

The ground floor is occupied by The Ainsworth restaurant.