Chelsea Arms Apartment

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6-story Beaux-Arts cooperative-apartment building completed in 1918 as a tenement. Designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag, it is clad in white brick laid in a variety of decorative patterns. There is a stone enframement around the entrance, with a bell-flower molding. To either side is a single-window and a tripartite window, with white wooden framing; the tripartite window's center section has an interesting arrangement of the glass panes on the upper half. The brick piers around them have outlined panels, with white stone panels above and below that match the stone lintels over the ground-floor windows. Thee is a steep set of steps to a basement entrance at the east end.

The upper floors have four single-windows in the middle, and tripartite windows at the ends, with the same pane arrangement as on the ground floor. At the 2nd floor the piers have brickwork in the shape of a diamond and a cross, and there is a herringbone pattern across the top of this floor. A black metal fire escape runs down the center of the facade. At the top floor the windows are flanked by stone pilasters and topped by a stone cornice with scrolled brackets and small cartouches.

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