39 West 19th Street (New York City, New York)

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150-foot, 12-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1910. Designed by Maynicke & Franke as a store-and-loft building, the facade is faced in stone, brick and terra-cotta, five bays wide. The bays of the 3-story base are created by large stone piers with spandrels separating the stories. The ground story contains plate glass display windows with transoms; the 2nd and 3rd floors contain Chicago-style windows framed in wood with central panes flanked by one-over-one sash. The paneled piers that mark the bays feature terra-cotta ornament in place of conventional capitals, supporting a cornice which serves as a sill for the windows of the 4th floor. Here the bays contain three windows set within buff-coloredbrick reveals. Terra-cotta plaques support a thin cornice.

Floors 5-10 are treated in much the same fashion. Brick piers and brick diamond and chevron pattern spandrel panels indicate the bays, each containing three windows. A heavier sill marks the division between the 10th & 11th floors. The ornate 11th and 12th floors have terra-cotta faced piers and segmental-arches crowning the 12th floor. Terra-cotta ornament supports the bracketed brown metal cornice.

The building was converted to apartments sometime in the late 1900s. The ground floor is occupied by Burger & Lobster restaurant.

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