Hudson Mercantile | event manager, commercial building

 event manager, commercial building

6-story event space building completed in 1911. It is clad in orange brick with a light-grey stone water table. The main entrance is near the west end of the north facade on 36th Street, with a black metal door atop a steel landing with steps descending to the east. Immediately to the right is a narrow window, and to the left is another window (that doesn't extend as far down) and then a tripartite window separated by a sandstone mullion. The far west end has a service entrance with a recessed black metal door atop two stone steps, paired with a single-window; they are both topped by an arched lintel with alternating brick and limestone blocks. The east half of the ground floor has a double-window flanked by two very small windows (the eastern one having been bricked-in), and a paired window; all of the ground-floor windows have brown iron grilles, and a stone band runs across them.

The upper floors have five bays, with paired windows in the middle and end bays, and double-windows in the other two. A stone cornice sets off the 2nd floor, with a green metal cornice below the 4th floor. The windows have simple stone sills, and the middle and end bays have brick spandrel panels between floors, and are flanked by slightly-projecting brick piers. They have stone capitals at the 4th floor with handing pendants framing rectangular panels, and at the 6th floor with stylized geometric shields. The roof line is marked by a brick parapet with stepped-up, peaked pavilions at both ends.

The east facade on the avenue a bay filled with glass blocks at the north end. To the south is a black metal service door, a tripartite bay of glass blocks, and a large and small loading dock at the south end. The upper floors have a middle bay of tripartite windows, with two double-window bays on either side, with brown metal mullions. The ornament and trim matches that seen on the north facade. A slightly-angled billboard is mounted across most of the 2nd-3rd floors, covering all but the south bay.