40 West 10th Street

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4-story residential building completed in the mid-1800s as a 3-story stable. It was altered in 1912 by Henry E. Scholl as a studio for the well-known sculptor Charles Keck. The new Italian Renaissance front, a third floor and a penthouse were added by Walter L. Uhl for Keck between 1918 and 1927. The original stable door now serves as a garage door. In the 1980s, the building was renovated with a terraced penthouse floor added, and iron railings at the second and third-story windows holding planters. Additional planters front the terraced penthouse. The facade is four bays wide, with round-arched windows at the 2nd floor - the center two are paired together, with a carved face medallion above them. The penthouse level is above a black metal dentiled cornice.