Fur Center Building (New York City, New York) | office building

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148-foot, 12-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1924. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story base. The ground floor is faced in light-grey painted stone with a darker grey granite water table. There is a large, deeply-recessed opening in the center, with its glass rear wall angled back to the right. The east-facing sidewall within the recessed area has a set of glass double-doors for the ground-floor commercial space. On either side are two plate-glass display-windows. The main entrance is at the east end, with glass double-doors, and the west end has a freight entrance with metal double-doors.

The 2nd & 3rd floors are framed in limestone and have three wide middle bays of 5-over-2 studio windows, and 3-over-2 end bays, although the outer pane at the west bay has been replaced by brown metal panels. There are reddish-brown stone piers separating the bays, and also forming the spandrel between the two floors. The base is capped by a limestone band course.

The upper floors have three middle bays of four windows and the end bays have double-windows (all with black metal mullions). The outer bays set back above the 10th floor, with large stone cartouches decorating the piers at the top of the 10th floor at the outer bays, and the center bay extending up to the 12th floor before setting back, highlighted by a peaked pediment with a stone roundel, as well as two more cartouches at the piers.

The side elevations are clad in brown brick with only a few single-windows. The ground floor is occupied by Harounian Rugs International.