130 Fulton Street

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13-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1893 as a 9-story office building. Designed by DeLemos & Cordes Architects, it has a 4-story rusticated limestone base, with metal-and-glass storefronts and a cornice at the ground floor. The piers on the next three floors are wider, dividing the Fulton Street elevation into seven bays, and three bays on Nassau Street, with a rounded corner bay that has the most interesting feature of the building -- windows of curving glass. The 2nd-3rd floors have double-height openings with paired windows divided by slender, dark-green metal pilasters. The metal spandrels each have three panels with rosettes, surrounded by other ornament (the rounded corner spandrel has only two panels). A small course of dentils tops the 2nd floor, with a larger decorative band course at the base of the 3rd. At the corner, the two end piers each have a pair of scrolled brackets supporting a stone balcony with a balustrade, in front of the arched 4th-floor window. The rest of the 4th-floor windows are paired, and have the same pilasters as below. The base is topped by a terra-cotta cornice with carved modillions and a frieze consisting of alternating panels of rosettes and fleur-de-lis.

The upper floors are faced in sandstone, with the bays recessed between the piers. An ornamented band course snakes across the top of the 5th floor, with a Greek-fret motif below it in the recessed bays. The Greek fret pattern is repeated in the spandrels up to the 8th floor, where the piers have ornate Corinthian capitals, and the intermediate pilasters have small scrolls. The corner bay has an oculus window. A broad and very intricate cornice tops the 8th floor, with a slightly smaller cornice above the 9th floor (originally the top floor) which has round-arched windows.

In 2005, Koeppel Companies and architect Elliot Vilkas converted the building into 21 residential condominium units, with three new full floors and a recessed penthouse constructed on top. The added floors are plain beige masonry, slightly set back. The addition lacks ornamentation, and has double windows in the center bays, with single windows in the outer bays of both facades. The corner is angled, but does not reproduce the curved window of the lower floors. The penthouse is set far back, and topped by a water tower that is just visible from the street from some angles. The ground floor is occupied by Nassau Fulton Optical, Starbucks Coffee, a Bank of America branch, and GNC.