10 St. Mark’s Place | Block : 463 | Lot #14

Building Date : 1879
Original Use : Residential

Original Owner : Nicholas Schultz
Original Architect : Jobst Hoffmann

Description & Building Alterations

This striking ornate six story stone building is a Old-Law tenement constructed in 1879 for Nicholas Schultz by architect Jobst Hoffmann. The delicately ornamented facade is transitional in style showing both Italianate and Neo-Grecian features. Its most prominent feature (although partly obscured by a fire escape stairway) is the square bay window which occupies two floors of the building’s wide central bay, supported by delicately carved corbels framing the central doorway on the ground floor. Another distinctive feature is the alternating brown and red stone arched pediments above the windows of the penultimate floor, and the facade is topped by an elaborate green iron cornice dedicated to Saint Nicholas.

Block : 463 / Lot : 14 / Building Date : 1879 / Original Owner : Nicholas Schultz / Original Use : Residential / Original Architect : Jobst Hoffmann

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