The Wareham Apartments

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6-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1904. Designed by James E. Ware , it is clad in red brick and limestone, with a limestone ground floor. The center bay of the ground floor's three bays has black wood-and-glass double-doors and a transom, with a keystone, and two pairs of large scrolled brackets wrapped with wreaths supporting a stone balcony at the middle of the 2nd floor, with paired stone end post and iron railing in the middle. On either side of the entry the ground floor has a narrow double-window with a keystone, and tucked low into the south end is a small, gated basement entry.

The upper floors have four bays, with wide single-windows in the middle, and projecting oriel windows with angled side panes at the outer bays. These have stone quoins, and all the bays have splayed stone lintels with keystones. At the 2nd & 6th floors the keystones at the 2nd & 6th floor's outer bays are scrolled and wrapped with garlands. The 2nd-floor oriels have projecting stone sills carried on pairs of brackets. The oriel windows have green iron pilasters between windows, decorated on the top halves by handing pendant-like ornament, and green iron cornices. An iron fire escape runs down the middle two bays.

The facade is crowned by a bracketed metal roof cornice with a pair of metopes extending down to frame the top of the outer bays at the 6th floor. Above the cornice is a brick parapet stepped up at the ends, with a stone coping. The building contains 18 apartment units.