Finck Building

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169-foot, 12-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1916. Designed by Crow, Lewis & Wickenhoefer, the building is built on the old site of the Finck Brewery, for which it is named. It is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base, eight bays wide. There is a classically-inspired entrance in both end bays, each recessed within an elaborate surround with rope moldings, topped by the inscription "FINCK BUILDING" on a frieze beneath a dentiled cornice. The east end has the main entrance with metal-and-glass doors and infill, while the west end has a service entrance with metal doors and a glass panel above. Above each entrance, at the 2nd floor, is an aedicular window with curving stone ornament at either side. The 2nd bay from the west has a freight driveway with a roll-down metal gate topped by metal vents. The rest of the ground floor has storefronts above low light-windows at the sidewalk level for the basement. Each storefront has a tripartite window topped by multi-pane transoms. Black cast-iron spandrels with elaborate reliefs of cherubs separate the 2nd floor windows, which are also large grids of many small panes. Above a narrow stone cornice the 3rd floor has the same large windows, smaller in the narrower end bays, which project just slightly out from the rest of the facade. The base is capped by a dentiled course surmounted by a frieze with a wave motif.

The upper floors also have slightly projecting end bays with narrower openings. The 4th-floor windows match those from the base, while the higher floors have triple-windows divided by iron mullions and the end bays have double-windows. Each bay has paneled brick spandrels between the floors, adorned with cartouches at the end bays. The bays are defined by wide uninterrupted brick piers, rising to an entablature at the 11th floor with elaborate cast-stone shell motifs. At the 12th floor each bay has two windows, separated by a narrow brick pier with a simple stone capital, and an ornamental blind fanlight under a brick arch. The roof line has a simple stone coping.

The east elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick, with a vertical band of buff-colored brick at the front. The front and rear ends of the wall have bays of four windows. The ground floor is occupied by Boxed Market grocery delivery service.