Chelsea Mews

 Neo-Gothic (architecture), apartment building, 1910_construction

151-foot, 12-story Neo-Gothic cooperative-apartment building completed in 1910. Designed by Buchman & Fox as a commercial loft building, it has a 2-story limestone base, five bays wide. There are twin entrances in the narrower end bays, with recessed doorways under pointed arches containing transoms. The three center bays are deeply recessed at the ground floor, behind metal gates. The walls at these bays are clad in beige brick, with high windows and low basement windows with multiple staircases down to the basement level. Decorative iron spandrels line the bottom of the 2nd floor at these bays, where they each have rounded corners and three windows divided by metal mullions. The outer bays have projecting, angled pillars on the piers. The double-windows are also set under a rounded-corner opening, and above a dentiled cornice. A terra-cotta cornice with rosettes caps the base.

The upper floors are clad in white terra-cotta, with beveled piers. The three center bays each have three windows, while the end bays have two, all divided by narrow white terra-cotta pilasters. The terra-cotta spandrel panels are decorated with diamond shapes. The top two floors are set off by a band course with brackets at the piers. At the roof line is a terra-cotta parapet with six corbelled arches at the center bays, and paneling at the end bays. These are topped by a band of modillions and a crenelated top, with a coping, and small, pointed gables above the piers.

The eastern elevation is faced in white smooth stucco, with a single bay of windows near the front, and a raised parapet in the center of the roof line. The upper part of the western elevation is also white stucco, and has several bays of windows, with a similar roof parapet and coping.

It was converted to residential in 1985, with 107 apartments.