Media Arts Building

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167-foot, 13-story (and 9-story) office building completed in two phases, in 1907 and 1931. Designed by Otto Strack, the original 9-story building is clad in grey-washed brick with terra-cotta trim. The 2-story base spans the expansion as well, and is faced in white stucco on the 2nd floor, with large white tiles on the ground floor. There are several glass-and-metal storefronts with recessed glass doors atop low sets of black stone steps across the ground floor, with a couple of black metal service doors at the east end, and the main entrance closer to the center, with bronze-framed glass double-doors, sidelights, and transom framed by green marble columns; a black metal band runs across the top of the ground floor. The 2nd floor has five large bays of windows at the eastern section, with the end bay wider. To the left, above the main entrance, is a triple-window with framed by brown stone mullions, flanked by copper-colored ogees and a copper-colored cornice with a shell on top. The east end has four narrow single-windows around a double-window. Copper-colored bases with foliate ornament support the main brick piers above.

The 3rd-7th floors have light banding between the piers, and a middle section with four bays of paired windows, plus another bay of single-windows on the left. These all have terra-cotta surrounds, with the paired windows having keystones at the 7th floor. There is a west section and slightly wider east section that are not banded. The west section has window bands on the 3rd-7th floors with thick, black iron mullions dividing two narrow windows on either side of a wider, split center window. There are thin, continuous sills below these bands, with broader, flat lintels across the tops. The east section has a double-window bay (with black iron mullions) with two single-windows on either side. These have thin, light-colored stone sills. A stone cornice with a dentil course and egg-and-dart molding runs across the entire facade at the top of the 7th floor.

At the middle section the banding switches onto the piers, and the paired-window bays change to triple-windows at the next two floors. The lower roof is at the 9th floor. The west section extends to the 10th floor, with three large windows on the 8th & 9th floors, and six much smaller openings on the 10th floor, which is topped by a triangular pediment with a crest and wreath at the apex, between piers that extend up higher and have lions' heads wrapped in wreaths. The taller east section has the same window arrangement as the lower floors, with the outer piers banded at the 8th floor, which is topped by a stone cornice. At the 12th floor the outer piers have the same ornament as on the west section. The 13th floor is set back, and fronted with green copper panels.

The east and west elevations above the shorter neighboring buildings are clad in plain brick, with a few bays of double-windows on the east side, and just a couple single-windows on the top of the west side. The ground floor is occupied by CityMD urgent care.