Fine Arts Building

 office building, 1908_construction

7-story Romanesque-revival office & showroom building completed in 1908. It was originally a carriage house for Bloomingdale's, and then converted to showrooms in 1962. The facade is clad in orange brick. At the 2-story base, between the ends piers that are banded with rough-faced grey stone, there is a 2-story storefront glass, metal, and dark-green and white marble. The green marble frames the three bays of the storefront, with white marble spandrels between the floors within each bay. The three bays are divided into three square show-windows at the 2nd floor, with thin aluminum framing. At the ground floor, they have the same show-windows, as well as three entrances. The east bay has a central entrance, with glass double-doors recessed between the show-windows, serving as the main building entrance, and covered by a black canvas canopy. The center bay has a storefront entrance with a glass door offset to the right. The west bay has a double set of metal service doors at the right. The top of the base, just above the marble of the storefront, has three rows of small brick squares enscribed within recessed squares, one of the base of each of the three main bays of the facade. Above these is a continuous band of rough-faced, dark-grey stone serving as a sill course for the 3rd-floor windows.

The upper floors have two bays within each of the three main bays on the 3rd-6th floors, each with a double-window. They are divided by dark-grey metal mullions, and topped by rough-faced stone lintels at the 3rd floor. All of the windows have 2-over-4 small panes at the 3rd & 4th floors. The 4th-floor windows are round-arched, also with rough-faced stone sills above brick corbels. Another set of three bands with squares like those topping the base are seen at the bottom of the 5th floor's bays, with rough-faced stone sills above them. Between these, on the four main piers, there are decorative wrought-iron ornament pieces. The 5th-6th floors match the 3rd-4th, but without the subdivision into smaller panes within each window.

A continuous band of recessed squares sets off the top floor, which has three round-arched windows in each main bay. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with an egg-and-dart molding above a brick corbel table. The ground floor is occupied by Boccara Gallery, and Michael Dawkins Home, with the Janus et Cie furniture on the 2nd floor.