Chelsea Lion's Head

USA / New Jersey / West New York / West 19th Street, 121
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161-foot, 11-story Beaux-Arts residential building originally completed in 1904 as an annex to the Simpson, Crawford & Simpsons department store next door. The store closed in 1914. The annex building spans six bays. Above the 2-story, grey-painted cast-iron base, it is clad in buff-colored brick., where the tripartite bays have similar iron mullions separating the windows as those seen on the main Simpson, Crawford & Simpson building. The 3rd floor is decorated with iron lion's heads on the piers between each bay. Various string courses (egg-and-dart, dentiled) cross the bases of the 34th, 5th, 9th & 11th floors. The 11th floor is capped by a projecting, bracketed iron roof cornice.

In April, 2002, an explosion in the basement of this 11-story building at 121 West 19th Street injured about 30 people, broke windows and darkened its façade. Almost a year and a half later, the building was sold for more than $25 million to Alchemy Properties, which converted it to 67 condominiums including 4 duplex penthouses with skylights and terraces. It was renamed Chelsea Lion's Head. The ground floor is occupied by The Tessler Center for the Arts, which opened in 2007, Sushi Tokyo, and The Philip Berley Preschool of the Arts.

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Coordinates:   40°44'28"N   73°59'44"W

Comments

  • 4th and 5th floor windows are also oversized.
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