fine and lofty structure is the Manhattan and Merchants' Bank. In this building massiveness is given both by the dimensions and by the material, which is gray granite, plain in parts, in others polished to obtain variety. The entrance, as in many of the most effective buildings of New York City, is by a grand yet simple cular arch. Though no particular style is followed here, the upper part has tall pilasters which run through three storeys in Palladian fashion. The United Bank is a most effective building. It is an exceedingly massive pile of Triassic sandstone, nine storeys high, with a dentellated cornice and much rough stone on the four lower floors. The two porches project boldly, and their upper angles are fashioned into unique ornament. A griffin holds the flagstaff at the angle. The little decora tion there is on this edifice is well placed.
,11ills 1?ui/dins-. —No other structure in New York City, for whatever purpose erected, exceeds the Mills building in magnificence (pl. 64, jig. r). It is true that the effect might have been still finer had the centre, instead of forming a deep recess except on the lower floor, been accent uated by greater height than the buildings on each side, and brought well to the front. But the two masses of equal importance which flank the portcullised entrance are each so large that they are separately the equals of any other office-block in the city. It is a rich structure in the style of the Early Italian Renaissance (before the orders were invented), with an abundance of arabesque panels in terra-cotta and two decorated belts of stone. The two lower floors are of stone; the remainder of the structure is of red brick and terra-cotta. Above the stonework rise three series of pilasters increasing in elaboration upward. Terra-cotta decora tive panels are placed beneath all the windows, and there is a good cor nice. The height of the building is more than 1S3 feet, and its cost was nearly three millions of dollars.
The.Tribune Building, not long since the loftiest in New York City, is a plain but effective structure of red brick with stone dressings; eleven storeys in height. It is capped by a square and rather heavy-looking tower with a machicolated cornice. The turret is not central, but has two bays on one side and only one on the other. The front makes an obtuse angle, though this is not evident in a front view. The style may be called Gothic, though the lines are not so. Notwithstanding the too great prominence of the stone dressings and the too great height of the dor mers, this structure will long remain one of the finest building-blocks of the city.
The Potter and Jiorse Potter surpasses the Tribune building in height. Stores occupy the ground-floor, above which are ten storeys, besides an attic. No polychromy is attempted on this towering pile, which is entirely of red brick and red terra-cotta, except where ironwork fills in the lower floors between the piers. A cornice of great projection runs round the building two storeys below the top. The storey below this mnst be considered to form the frieze and architrave, and below are the immense composite capitals of a series of huge pilasters. Almost as lofty is the adjacent Morse building. This is a comparatively unadorned but effective composition of red brick with segment-beaded openings throughout, the arches diversified with black brick, some lines of which run across the front. The Temple Court building, the two lower floors of which are of reddish granite and the rest red brick, rises to a height of ten storeys.
The Post and Alm-timer Buildings are of cream-colored or buff terra cotta and buff brick—materials which are now largely used in New York. The Post building has eight floors above the pavement, besides a mcz.z.a nine, or low storey, intercalated between the second floor (preinit',re stage, of the French) and the third. Instead of a series of brick or stone dor mers above the cornice, backed by a mansard roof, both these buildings have a continuous attic-storey. In the Post building the windows of the storey below the cornice are square openings in the frieze. Below this large pilasters run through four storeys of round-arched windows, while the windows of the lower floors are square-headed. There is a reminis cence of Palladianism in the arrangement of the pilasters, yet there is too much originality to permit the term " Palladian " to be applied to it. The entrances to both these buildings are large round arches, and in the Mortimer building a stone staircase occupies one half of the archway, while the other half is taken up by the entrance to the ground-floor. Other office-buildings of New York City worthy of mention are the Tel ephone building, a striking composition of buff terra-cotta and buff brick, and the Equitable building, erected at a cost of eight millions of dollars —a huge structure in conventional Italian with orders which in some cases mask two storeys.