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The '''Phenix Building''' was a historic building at the corner of [[Palafox]] and [[Cedar Street]]s, immediately south of the famous [[Trader Jon's building]]. An 1893 advertisement in the [[Daily News]] read as follows:
{{bquote|FOR RENT, in the new three-story building on Palafox, below mainMain, to be known as "THE PHENIX," the following apartments: Two small store rooms, 10x50, suitable for fruit or tobacco stores, or for offices, on ground floor: water and gas. Three elegant rooms on second floor, suitable for offices or sleeping rooms; S.W. exposure, plastered and papered, water and gas. Hall on third floor, 50x50, plastered and papered, no columns, has fireplaces, water and gas, accessible by two flights stairs. Ventilated from every quarter. Terms low to right parties. Apply at once to L.C. Sarra, Builder}}
Early tenants included a barbershop, cigar store, and [[Dunn's Hotel]]. In [[1903]] it had become the [[Bay Hotel]], Restaurant and Shooting Gallery.