moved to new quarters in 1914–1915. Soon afterward, the book distributor Baker & Taylor also moved elsewhere. By the 1920s, Union Square was becoming a neighborhood dedicated primarily to manufacturing and wholesaling, and the Century Building's remaining tenants included Johnson & Faulkner as well as Earl & Wilson. Later tenants who occupied the building by the 1930s included William Shaland Toys and Novelties, as well as the Ferguson Brothers Manufacturing Company. The American Drapery & Carpet Company was the building's last ground-floor tenant before it was vacated in the late 1970s, and as such, it was sometimes called the Drapery Building. By the early 1990s, an observer called 33 East 17th Street an "eyesore". Related Companies and the Carlyle Group leased the building in 1994, after fifteen years of vacancy. and Related later took ownership of the building by 1995. The facade was restored in 1994–1995 by Li/Saltzman Architects, while Related Companies renovated the rest of the building to accommodate a four-story Barnes & Noble bookstore. The bookstore, which opened by late 1995, was one of several buildings in the Union Square area that were redeveloped by Related Companies. Li/Saltzman's renovation received the Preservation Award for Restoration from the Municipal Art Society in 1996. Architecture The Century Building was designed by J. William Schickel. The building is unusual in that it is one of relatively few commercial buildings in the Queen Anne style within New York City. First used in the United States in the 1860s, the Queen Anne style included such features as asymmetric brick facades, stone decorative trim, elaborate ornamentation, and roofs interrupted by dormers or gables. The style was first used for suburban and rural residential buildings until Richard Norman Shaw's New Zealand Chambers, a now-demolished commercial building in London, was built in that style in 1871. Schickel took much inspiration from Shaw's design for New Zealand Chambers. Form The structure contains a footprint in an L shape and extends north through the entire width of the block, with a secondary address at 38-46 East 18th Street. The 18th Street frontage, which measures , is slightly longer than the frontage on 17th Street, which measures . Facade The Century Building's use of terracotta moldings and panels was unusual for a commercial building at the time. The building's main facade is the three-bay-wide facade on 17th Street to the south. Elements of the 17th Street facade that are