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English: Built in 1842, this four-story Italianate-style building was constructed as a Greek Revival-style structure, having housed various hotels throughout its existence, including the Irving House Hotel, the American House Hotel, the Fulton Hotel, and the Doty House Hotel. The building was renovated around the time that two adjacent buildings were built to the north along this block of 3rd Street, with all three having very similar exterior appearances. One section of the structure was heavily modified in 1909 when the Newark Arcade was built, with two of the bays of the building being heavily modified in the Beaux Arts style, and becoming an entrance to the arcade, which ran westward from the building to 4th Street. The building was originally seventeen bays wide, though it is now sixteen bays following the modification of two bays into one when the Newark Arcade was built, with most of the facade maintaining its Italianate-style detailing, including painted brick exteriors, a bracketed cornice, arched attic windows, decorative window headers, stone sills, double-hung windows, and first floor retail shopfronts, with one oriel window at the north end of the building. The section of the building’s facade that became part of the arcade once matched other sections of the building, but was modified when the arcade was built, with two bays of the facade being reconstructed into a single recessed bay with triple one-over-one windows on the second and third floor, an arch on the third floor with decorative trim and brackets at the top, and an arched doorway at the base. The Arcade portion of the building lost its cornice and was clad in stucco at some point in the 20th Century, with several window openings on this portion of the facade being infilled, being the least well preserved section of the building. However, the arcade is presently slated for renovations, which will include restoring this facade. The building is a contributing structure in the Newark Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.