25 Mercer Street

Residence 2/3 at 25 Mercer Street takes two full floors, 5,809 square feet, with the living rooms on the lower floor and four bedroom suites on the floor above. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's inventory for the building reads: commenced 1861, original owner Amos Eno, original function store and factory, stone front, five stories, four bays.

The front windows face east onto Mercer Street, and the lower floor runs 84 feet to a terrace at the west end, past cast-iron Corinthian columns and a wood beam. Eno was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1810, began as a dry goods merchant and moved into Manhattan real estate; he built the Fifth Avenue Hotel at Madison Square between 1856 and 1859. The commission's 1973 report on the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District names him original owner of five buildings between Canal and Grand Streets, and lists No. 21 to 23, next door, as a stone store and factory of five stories completed in 1861. Eleven of the seventeen facades on the block date from 1861 or earlier.

GDS Development converted the building to condominiums in 2016, with Fogarty Finger as architects, and Residences 2 and 3 were two full-floor lofts at that stage. A filing to combine apartments in the building, with structural work for a stair between floors, was signed off by the city in September 2020. The stair is oak treads on black stringers and rises beside the dining area; the great room at the front measures 24 feet 6 by 38 feet 6 under a ceiling of 12 feet 4.

Upstairs, the primary suite is the only one on the Mercer side, with its own gas fireplace and a windowed dressing room. Three more suites sit across the west side, each with a bath, and a gallery 39 feet long leads to the floor's private entrance.