Soltmann Building | office building, Neoclassical (architecture), 1910_construction

 office building, Neoclassical (architecture), 1910_construction

150-foot, 12-story Neo-Classical office building completed in 1910 as a manufacturing building. Designed by Jay H. Morgan, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base. The middle three bays have metal-and-glass storefronts at the ground floor, and the end bays are framed by banded piers. The main entrance is in the east bay, with four glass doors below a large transom. The west bay has a service entrance with metal doors and a small storefront entrance with glass doors. Large console brackets carry projecting stone cornices over the end bays at the top of the ground floor.

The 2nd floor has double-windows in the end bays, and there are paired windows in the end bays on all the floors above. The middle three bays have triple-windows on every floor above the ground floor, and all the double- and triple-windows have slender black iron colonnettes between the windows. A broad stone cornice tops the 2nd floor, and the base is capped by a stone band course.

At the upper floors the end-bay windows have simple stone sills and splayed lintels with keystones. The middle bays have similar sills and flat stone lintels, and the brick spandrels between floors each have a recessed brick rectangle. The facade is dotted with protruding air-conditioning units. The piers have stylized capitals at the top of the 10th floor, which is topped by a stone cornice.

The top two floors have piers of red brick with stone edging, and roundels between the floors. The windows on these two floors have stone surrounds, and the spandrels are decorated with multi-hued terra-cotta with cartouches. The facade is crowned by a white stone roof cornice with dentils and a scrolled bracket at each pier.

The ground floor is occupied by Bunny & Bro Coffee, Neelam Fashions, Pioneers bar, and Boris's Hairstyling.