Bazzini Building

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7-story Renaissance/Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1886 as a 6-story warehouse/commercial building housing a wholesale grocery business, as well as butter and egg distributors. Designed by C. Wilson Atkins, it is clad in yellow brick, with a high granite water table at the base. Original piers frame the doors, windows, and transoms on the first floor. A fixed metal awning, both suspended from rods and supported on brackets, is continuous on both facades. Above the base, broad brick piers culminating in arcades frankly express the skeletal steel structure.

The Greenwich Street facade has five bays of paired windows; the three central bays rise to round arches while the end bays have brick corbelling as a finishing element. On Jay Street, the facade has three broad arches defining the bays, each of which contains four windows. The splayed, keyed lintels and the simple, continuous brick cornice are elements of the Renaissance Revival style. The center bay of the Jay Street facade has a white metal fire escape with wide, basket-style landings.

The building was acquired in 1943 by the Bazzini family, who leased floors to various wholesale food distributors until the late 1960s, when the Bazzini Brothers Company, processors and distributors of dried fruits and nuts, then moved into the building. A one-story, set-back penthouse addition was built during conversion to residential usage. The ground floor is occupied by Sarabeth's restaurant.