Molly Wee Pub

 bar, apartment building

3-story residential building completed in 1902 for Isidor H. Kempner as a hotel and saloon. It is clad in beige-painted brick with dark-red trim. The ground floor facing the avenue has a restaurant storefront with black metal-and-glass French windows to the north of a bay of red paneled wood with a wooden door. At the north end of the west facade is the residential entrance, with a wood-and-glass door below a transom, framed by red paneled pilasters. The storefront continues on the west end of the south facade on 30th Street, with red-brick piers framing two bays of red wood infill, with another door in the west bay. A dark-red metal cornice tops the entire ground floor. The rest of the ground floor on the south facade is stuccoed and painted beige, with red-painted outlines of four "bays", only one of which has any actual opening; the 2nd "bay" from the east has a recessed, paneled, red wooden door.

The upper floors on the south facade have five widely-spaced bays of single-windows with dark-red splayed stone lintels. At the west end is a rounded corner with another window facing south, and another facing west, with a vertical sign mounted on the rounded corner between these windows. The rest of the west facade's upper floors originally had two more single-windows, but the northern one has been reduced to about a quarter of its original size, although the lintels remain (and the sill at the 3rd floor) indicating the original openings. Both facades are crowned by a modillioned, dark-red metal roof cornice that projects and wraps around the round corner.

The ground floor is occupied by The Molly Wee pub.

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