Manhattan Village Academy (New York City, New York)

 office building, school

160-foot, 13-story Art-Deco school/office building completed in 1925 (the annex to the east in 1956) for the Shattuck & Company with a later annex. Designed by Cory & Cory as an industrial building, it is faced in tan-painted cast concrete.

At the base, segmental-arched end bays contain 2-story green metal entrances with paneled spandrels. These bays flank two wide openings with green metal and glass storefronts. At the 2nd floor the 4-window openings of the central section, each with double-windows separated by green stone mullions, set the pattern for the floors above. The concrete columns, joined by recessed paneled spandrels, are embellished at the 3rd floor and 9th-floor parapet with colored terra-cotta tiles. The end bays have three original windows per floor separated by masonry mullions and recessed paneled spandrels. The columns are embellished with terra-cotta tiles at the 11th-floor parapet. The 2-story setbacks of the central section and one 2-story setback of the end bays roughly repeat the patterns from the floors below.

The building was erected as a bakery and candy factory for the Frank J. Shattuck Company. A 10-story addition was erected in 1954-56, and used as a bakery, food processing plant, and offices. It has a 7-story lower section, with a 3-story sloped section above the parapet. The lower portion is divided into three bays by concrete columns. One has a freight entrance and the other two have storefronts at the ground floor. The other floors (except the 6th) contain three original 20-pane steel-framed windows with pivoting ventilators and steel mullions per bay. The parapet contains three rectangular openings and is surmounted by a metal railing. The 3-story, 3-bay sloped section above the parapet contains four windows per bay.

On the 23rd Street side, the 11-story concrete and metal facade, belonging to the addition of 1954-56, is 100 feet wide. The ground floor contains a modern storefront of metal and glass and establishes the 4-bay organization of the upper floors. Each bay contains four windows, separated by continuous steel mullions, per floor. Windows on the 2nd, 7th & 8th floors have five panes; those on the 3rd-6th floors have five panes; those on the 9th-11th floors have three panes. The 3rd- through 11th-floor windows are united by ribbed metal spandrels.

In 1996, the Manhattan Village Academy opened in the lower floors of the original building. It is a small public high school focused on liberal arts, with prospective students having to apply and reach a specified level of academic achievement for acceptance.

The ground floor of the annex is occupied by Foto Care on 22nd Street, and Data Vision Computer Video on 23rd.

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