98 St. Mark’s Place | Block : 435 | Lot #13

This five-story with basement old-law tenement was built along with its neighboring building at 96 St. Mark’s Place. The two structures were designed by architects Schneider & Herter, to accommodate 21 families in all.

The twin tenements were featured on the cover for Led Zeppelin’s album “Physical Graffiti” (see Village Preservation to the right). In 1981 The Rolling Stones shot the video “Waiting on a Friend” here, in which Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meet at the stoop.

The two buildings share almost identical facades. No. 98 features beltcourses throughout the facade, a round-arched entrance portico with columns supporting a bracketed entablature and a figural keystone, decorative segmental-arched window enframements at first story, round-arched window openings with figural keystones at the second story, molded window lintels at the third story, decorative panels between the fourth and fifth stories, and engaged pilasters flanking two center bays on top floor supporting a segmental arch with ornate tympanum.

Block : 435 / Lot : 013 / Building Date : 1890 / Original Owner : Charles Ruff / Original Use : Residential  / Original Architect : Schneider & Herter