Samaritan Village

 rehabilitation center, apartment building

6-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1902. Designed by Sass & Smallheiser as an apartment building, it is now operated by Samaritan Village, Inc. as a drug or alcohol rehabilitation center with a primary focus on substance abuse treatment, providing residential long-term care.

The facade is clad in red brick and white limestone above a rusticated limestone base and red-brick basement level. A low stoop between wrought-iron fencing leads up to the central entrance, with a wood-and-glass door, sidelight, and transom framed by a stone molding. Topping the steps are a pair of polished red granite columns with Corinthian capitals supporting an entablature. To either side are a double-window and a single-window, with shallow-sloped, broadly projecting red canvas awnings. There is a basement door at the east end bay, next to a metal vent, and a double-window to the west, with a sideways metal staircase descending from the west end.

The 2nd floor has eight bays of round-arched windows with white stone moldings joined by stone banding across the full floor. Each window is topped by a foliate scrolled keystone. The 3rd-5th floors, set off by a stone band course, have eight bays of square-headed windows with splayed stone lintels and scrolled keystones at the middle four, and stone enframements at the outer bays, topped by scrolled keystones flanked by foliate ornament. The sills are bracketed at the 4th & 5th floors.

The top floor also has eight bays of square-headed windows, with splayed lintels and keystones, but without enframements. There is a continuous, projecting sill course with four brackets. Above the brackets are four thin stone piers that extend to brackets at the white metal roof cornice (with a fifth bracket in the middle). The cornice also has modillions and ornamented panels.