30 Irving Place (New York City, New York)

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163-foot, 12-story Neo-Renaissance office building completed in 1912. Designed by Mulliken & Moeller, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 2-story limestone base. The west facade is six bays wide, while the north facade spans five bays, and there are grey granite bases to the piers. The main entrance is in the south bay, with steel-and-glass double-doors in a black granite surround. The other ground-floor bays have storefronts, except for the eastern two bays on 16th Street, which have black metal infill and a freight entrance.

The upper floors all have tripartite windows with black metal mullions; at the eastern end bay, most of the windows are replaced by metal louvers. The 2nd-floor windows have bracketed stone sills, and the base is capped by a stone cornice. Above the base, there are brick spandrel panels between the piers separating each floor, those at the outer bays adorned with diamond shapes across a grid pattern. Below the 12th floor, they instead have a band of vertical bars, and these cross the piers as well. There are stone molded lintels around the window bays on the top floor, surmounted by cartouches at the outer bays. The west and north facades are crowned by a green metal roof cornice with modillions and large console brackets.

The secondary east and south facades are brown brick with several bays of single-windows without ornament.