The Steiner Building

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9-story Italian-Renaissance residential building completed in 1905. Designed by Townsend, Steinle & Haskell as a printing house for William Steiner & Sons Lithographers, who produced cigar bands, the building is clad in white brick above a 2-story limestone base. The facade is eight bays wide, with storefronts in the ground floor openings, and double-windows at the 2nd floor, divided by black iron pilasters, and joined by stone sills.

Above a stone cornice, the upper floors have paired windows with brick spandrels between floors. The outer two bays on each side have rusticated brick, and separate stone sills for each window (the center bays share stone sills between each window pair). At the 8th floor the center bays are segmental-arched, with scrolled keystones serving as brackets for a stone band course that sets off the top floor, which has two squared windows in each bay. At the outer bays, fluted Ionic columns separate the windows, and the piers between the outer bays are decorated by carved stone Renaissance ornament. A projecting, black metal roof cornice with modillions and dentils crowns the facade.

The building was converted to residential in 1998 with 35 condominium units.