605 Fifth Avenue

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6-story mercantile building completed in 1912. Designed by Townsend, Steinle & Haskell, it has a modernized 2-story storefront base. The entrance to the upper floors is at the north end, with a glass door, next to the black metal and glass ground-floor storefront. The 2nd floor has a large show-window filled with an advertising graphic, framed in white-painted metal.

The 3rd05th floors are framed by grey-painted stone outer piers, and the 3rd & 4th floors have projecting, tripartite bay windows with angled side panes. They are by slender Ionic colonnettes, and the windows have transoms, doubled at the wider center panes. The grey metal spandrels above both floors have ribbed bands. The 5th floor also has tripartite windows with transoms, but it not projecting. The pilasters separating the windows have a herringbone pattern at their tops. A wide, projecting stone panel tops the 5th floor, surmounted by a band course above cartouches with hanging pendants at the outer piers. The top floor has fluted Doric columns separating the end bays from the middle, which has two separate windows. The facade is crowned by a grey stone cornice with end brackets, modillions, dentils, and a cap with a row of short, rounded, projecting finials. The ground floor is occupied by P448 shoes.