Red Ball Garage | office building, interesting place

 office building, interesting place

7-level Neo-Georgian style office building originally completed in 1904 as a stable. Designed by Radcliffe & Kelley with John Roebling, it was converted to a parking garage sometime after 1920. It remained in use as a garage until plans began in 2024 to convert it into office use.

The facade is clad in red brick with white brick trim, above a white-painted stone ground floor. There are three wide bays in the middle, formerly garage entrances, with glass infill and sets of glass doors in the middle bay, with a black metal canopy above. There is a narrower window bay to either side, and brick-filled end bays. A row of simple roundels decorates the band across the top of the ground floor.

The upper floors have large industrial tripartite windows across six bays, with white brick quoins framing the end bays. A white band runs below the 6th floor, and there is corbelled white brickwork below the roof parapet. A large mechanical housing rises from the west end of the roof.

The former garage has been the traditional starting point for the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (finish line is the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, California).