Von Hoffmann Building (New York City, New York)

 office building, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

7-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1894. Designed by George Keister as a hotel and boarding house, it was originally known as the Von Hoffmann, was later converted to a loft building, and today contains offices.

The entryway has an elaborately-carved grey stone surround incised with the lettering "Von Hoffmann", with black metal-and-glass double-doors and a large transom slightly recessed atop three low steps. Elaborate Renaissance ornament adorns the piers framing the entry, both on the front and the inner sides. To the right is a modernized storefront with a door at the east end.

The upper floors are clad in yellow brick with terra-cotta trim. The 2nd floor has terra-cotta bands over the yellow brick, and prominent keystones over the three windows. The upper floor windows are recessed, with elaborate lintels and a pair of 3-story Ionic columns that are fluted and carved at the 3rd floor. At this level, the piers are also elaborately banded with terra-cotta capitals at the top of the 3rd floor. The windows from the 3rd-5th floors have stone surrounds, with dentiled sills at the 4th & 5th floors, and carved friezes below dentiled cornices at the 3rd & 4th floors.

The 6th floor, above a modillioned cornice, has smaller paired Corinthian columns, with the windows set beneath a molded architrave, and the 7th floor has elaborate terra-cotta piers and lintels below a black pressed metal roof cornice featuring scrolled brackets and an elaborate frieze. The ground floor is occupied by Latin American restaurant.