1165 Broadway

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5-story Beaux-Arts office building completed in 1867. Designed by Charles Mellon as a hotel known as the Coleman House, it was converted to stores and offices in 1906-07, with a new facade on both Broadway and West 27th by Maynicke & Franke.

Both facades are faced in tan-painted brick between projecting window groupings of brown-painted cast-iron and terra-cotta panels. The Broadway elevation is nine bays wide, with the southern bay being a smaller single-window bay, while the others have projecting, tripartite windows with angled side panes, framed in brown cast-iron. They also have paneled tan spandrels, and rounded corners at the 5th floor. The ground floor is lined with small storefronts with colorful box awnings.

The 27th Street facade has six bays, with single-windows in the narrower end bays, and the same projecting bay windows in the center. At both facades the main bays are topped by scrolled keystones with festooning, a brown string course with cartouches and festoons, and a roof cornice featuring festoons, brackets, and finials.

The north elevation is a blank cement stucco wall, and there is a tall brick chimney rising from the west end of the roof on 26th Street. The ground floor is occupied by LGG, Aesop fragrances, Aubi & Ramsa ice cream bar, Chaps & Co. barber shop, Top Drawer leather goods, Joe & The Juice, Ol' Days Farm To Table, Traditas Pizza, and Glosslab.

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