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8-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1910. Designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag, it is clad in beige brick above a 2-story limestone base with a grey granite water table. The central entrance, atop a couple granite steps, has a glass-and-metal door is a glass surround; framing this is a stone molding with a flower patter and a keystone. Black iron fencing fronts the basement areaways to either side, where the base has an inner bay of single-windows and end bays of double-windows, with iron grilles on the ground floor and basement. The 2nd-floor windows have rounded upper corners and decorative wrought-iron railings across the bottoms. A slightly-recessed, curved-bevel molding frames the center bay at the lower two floors, with rounded corners at the 2nd floor and a scrolled keystone, a stone panel between the two windows of the center bay, and circles with fleur-de-lis at the ends of the top section. There are also flat keystones above the other 2nd-floor windows, and the base is capped by a band course with a Greek fret motif, projecting at the center.

The brick upper floors have four single-windows in the middle, and double-window end bays. They have splayed brick lintels with scrolled keystones at the 3rd-7th floors, and simple stone sills. Narrow stone balconies carried on short, ribbed brackets front the end bays at the 4th & 6th floors, with wrought-iron railings. Similar but wider balconies front the middle bays at the 5th & 7th floors. The 8th floor has terra-cotta courses at the top and bottom, and terra-cotta panels on the piers. At the ends are a pair of large, projecting terra-cotta pilasters with floral bases and long, hanging bellflowers; they extend up past the sides of the projecting, bracketed, black metal roof cornice that crowns the facade.

The west elevation is clad in plain brick, with no openings except for within a wide light well near the middle, where the brick is red.

The building was redeveloped in 1988 as a permanent supportive housing residence for formerly homeless adults. The Senate includes 136 single-room occupancy units, along with offices and community space.