Congregation Beth Israel - West Side Jewish Center

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4-story Neo-Classical temple completed in 1925. Designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag for the Orthodox Jewish Congregation Beth Israel, it is clad in limestone. The ground floor has two round-arched entrances with paneled wooden double-doors and stained-glass fanlights. Pairs of spiral colonnettes frame the doorways. There is a secondary entrance to the right, with a smaller set of wooden doors.

The 2nd floor is set off by a dentiled band course. The middle of the facade is dominated by a double-height round-arch surrounding a composition of leaded- and stained-glass, wooden pilasters, and a broken pediment with a star of David. To either side are three small single-windows stacked vertically. The top floor has an arcade of five small round-arched windows in the middle and another round-arched window at each end. A stone tablet flanked by lions decorated the space above the arcade, and the roof line is marked by corbelled parapets, flat at the ends, and peaked in the center.