A nine-story red brick loft at the northeast corner of Washington Avenue and 16th Street, five bays on Washington and six on 16th. Wide steel-sash windows, now painted green, fill nearly every bay, so the walls read as a brick grid around glass. A pale terra cotta band caps the two-story base, with a rosette disk over each pier. The narrow end bays carry what ornament there is: single windows stacked up the piers to an arched eighth-floor window with a keystone, flanked by round bas-relief medallions. The deep bracketed cornice seen in 1920s photographs is gone, and the building now ends in a plain brick parapet with a thin coping. The east wall, where it rises above its neighbor, is a concrete frame infilled with brick, and its panels still carry faded painted signs, among them a hat company and the H. S. Collins Printing Company. Out back, toward City Museum, someone has painted O-O-P-S down the wall beside the fire escape.
Built in 1920–21 to the design of Preston J. Bradshaw. By 1938 it was occupied by the H. S. Collins Printing Company, whose name survives in a painted sign on the east wall. In 1997 it was converted into 67 apartments for artists, as the Art Lofts.
