The Playwright (Celtic Pub)

 restaurant, bar, commercial building, Irish pub

4-story commercial building originally completed in the 1870s. The lower two floors house the Celtic Pub, while the top two contain the Playwright Tavern Act III. The front facade on the avenue is three bays wide, with the ground floor featuring columns fronted by carved statues of female figures; at the top of the pillars, above the statues, are lions' heads. The upper floors are faced in beige smooth stucco with yellow fluted piers topped by Corinthian capitals at the 2nd & 4th floors. The 2nd floor projects out slightly, and the ground floor is covered by a projecting marquee, angled slightly up in the center. A large shamrock sign with neon lettering and outline is mounted on top of this marquee. The 2nd floor has three round-arched double-windows with scrolled keystones, also framed in yellow. The short side walls of the projecting section each have a narrow round-arched window. The piers support a red-and-yellow entablature at the top of the 2nd floor.

The top two floors also have three round-arched bays. The 3rd floor has gold rosettes above the windows, and decorative wrought-iron railings at their bases. A large, vertical neon sign is mounted on the north end of the wall. The 4th floor is actually set far back, with a false front at the building line surrounding the terrace at the front of the 4th floor. It matches the 3rd floor, with three round-arched openings and wrought-iron railings. Three additional round-arched openings, divided by short, yellow, fluted pillars with Corinthian capitals, continue along the top floor on the west end of the north facade. This roof section and the roof line at the front facade at crowned by a yellow cornice with brackets and modillions. The front part of the north facade is painted beige, and the rear is dark-grey.