175 Third Avenue (New York City, New York)

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5-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1896. Designed by Marshall L. Emery, it was built for the corporation of St. George's Church. It is clad in gold Roman brick and terra-cotta above a black metal-and-stone ground floor. The end piers at the ground floor have projecting bands, with fluting in between. There are three modernized black metal-and-glass storefronts, and a smaller bay between the southern two storefronts for the residential entrance. It has iron gated double-doors and a transom atop two stone steps, framed by light-grey stone columns with stylized capitals, banded with darker grey. They carry a pale-orange entablature surmounted by a triangular pediment, containing the monogram SG, for St. George.

The upper floors have three bays of paired windows, with single-window bays in between them (the exception being above the entrance pediment, where there is a set of small paired windows instead). There is terra-cotta banding across every pier on the 2nd floor, with terra-cotta quoins at the edges of the 3rd-4th floors, as well as around the paired-window bays; the quoins are splayed vertically across the tops of these bays. The windows have flat stone sills and lintels. Between the 3rd & 4th floors at these bays are carved panels of foliate ornament, and there are tall, splated lintels on the single-windows at the 4th floor. An ornamented band course runs below the 5th floor, which has round-arched windows, all lined with quoins. A black metal fire escape runs down the middle bay of the facade, and the roof cornice has been removed, leaving a bare parapet.

The St. George Flats, as it was called, filled with immigrant families. In its first years, one of the store spaces was home to the Western Union Sewing Machine Co. store and the other to a tailor shop. By 1925 Thomas Ford's real estate offices occupied one of the ground floor spaces. By 1975 the St. George's Thrift Shop occupied the larger store space. It remained through 1986, replaced by Fatburger in 1987, which was replaced by Shanghai Restaurant in 1988. The smaller space was occupied by the restaurant Pie in the Sky until around 1987. It was followed by the Okura Japanese restaurant in 1988. The building contains 12 apartment units. The ground floor is now occupied by Chito Gvrito Georgian restaurant, Thai Delight, and a convenience store.