Built by the
architect who designed 8 Greene Street, this building has a cast-iron
facade that is adorned with columns rendered in the heavy, unadorned
Tuscan order. Like others in the area, this facade is partly obscured by
fire escapes--these were added after a 1915 New York City regulation was
instituted in the aftermath of fatal loft fires like the one at the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911.