BASIS Independent Manhattan Upper School | 1907_construction

 school, 1907_construction

3-story school completed in 1907. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in red brick with white stone trim. Along 11th Avenue, the ground floor is has three large spaces of opaque glass with metal mullions, where garage doors once stood. The 2nd and 3rd floors have rows of single windows with white stone quoins and lintels. Narrow stone band courses connect the sills of all the windows. At the roof is a curved stone cornice with a metal railing above. The far east window bays on the 22nd Street side were bricked in when an elevator was installed.

The building later served as a Christmas ornament factory, before being converted into the Chelsea Art Museum in 2002, devoted to modern and contemporary art. The museum closed in 2010, and the building was sold to the Albanese Organization and converted to offices, used by Hewlett-Packard. In 2020, a new lease was signed to convert the building into a school for BASIS Independent Manhattan, serving students in grades 6-12.