50 Bond Street

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7-story Neo-Classical residential building completed in 1897. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel as a store-and-loft building, it is five bays wide, with a 2-story limestone base. The piers have palmette-decorated capitals and polished granite bases. The 2nd-floor windows are separated by chamfered piers with palmette-decorated capitals, and have small lion-head decorations at the base. The lintel between the 1st and 2nd stories is decorated with palmettes. Capping the base is a stone entablature decorated with wreaths, egg-and- dart and denticulated moldings.

The tan brick upper floors have spandrels decorated with raised brick courses (between 3rd & 4th, and 4th & 5th floors), and an overlaid alternating pattern of “I” and “+” shapes (above the 5th floor). The 3rd- and 4th-floor windows have dentiled lintels, and the inner piers have applied terra-cotta palmette-decorated capitals at the top of the 5th floor. The 6th & 7th floors feature 2-story terra-cotta fluted Ionic columns, and medallions in the spandrels. Above is an arcaded parapet, rising to a peaked middle.

The building has been converted to condominiums with joint live/work spaces for artists. The ground floor is occupied by Eva Scrivo hair salon.