Mihl Building

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10-story residential building completed in 1923 as a 9-story fur vault building. Designed by William H. Birkmire, it is clad in tan brick above a 2-story white terra-cotta base. The central entrance has steel-framed glass double-doors and a transom in an egg-and-dart molding surround. Above is a panel with rosettes at the ends and MIHL BUILDING carved in it, surmounted by a cornice with an egg-and-dart molding. To either side a band of decorative vertical notches caps the ground floor, which has two bays of storefronts on either side of the main entrance.

The upper floors have three bays of four windows with white iron mullions. The 2nd floor has a thin, rounded leaf band above the windows, with a small wreath at each pier. Above it, a thin cornice caps the base. The floors above have brick spandrels with brick-patterned outlines and small, central stone shields and swags (between the 3rd & 4th floors), and trios of brick diamond shapes (between the other floors). At the 8th floor there are wider brick mullions between the windows, and the piers have stone medallions with hanging pendants. The 9th floor is set off by a dentiled cornice, and has four separate windows in each bay. A stone coping caps the roof line, stepped up slightly at each pier, where there is a small stone shield.

The exposed front part of the west elevation is lighter-colored brick with bands of red brick between floors. It has two bays of single-windows.

The building was converted from artists' lofts to condominiums in 2002, with 25 units. A new penthouse floor on top was added, clad in grey pre-cast concrete, set back from the lower roof line and fronted by a terrace. Part of the ground floor is occupied by Rock Star Crystals.