122 St. Mark’s Place | Block : 435 | Lot #25

Description & Building Alterations

The two six-story new-law tenements at 122 through 126 St. Mark’s Place were built together and share an identical facade. They were designed by Horenburger & Straub, a prolific tenement architectural firm. Herman Horenburger designed the Congregation Adas Yisroel Anshe Mezeritz at 415 East 6th Street on his own.

The buildings retain much of their terra-cotta detail and feature ornamental panels, broken pediments, and animal heads. They display elaborate stone window enframements with engaged Corinthian columns at the second story, rounded pediments with cartouches at the third story, elaborate keystones at fourth and fifth stories, carved flat lintels at sixth story, splayed lintels with keystones on the upper floors at two center bays, a bracketed roof cornice with decorated frieze, and a brick cornice with projecting brick work above the first story storefront. Brickwork shelves above the ground floor frame the second floor windows and are important to the nearly Churrigueresque effect of the facades.