Chelsea Factory Arts Space

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1-story event building completed in 1914. Designed by Charles H. Caldwell as a garage, this long, low building has twin gable ends facing the street. Each section has a central round-arch vehicular entrance (now replaced by modern glass infill) flanked by pairs of tall round-arch windows with stone sills; all openings have radiating brick lintels. There is stone coping at the roof line and skylights along the ridge of the roof.

In its early days, the building served New York's earliest fleet of taxicabs. In 1948 the structure was sold to the Feidelson Trucking Corporation. It appears that the building remained an automobile garage until the 1990s, at which time renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz converted the building into the West 26th Street Studio. In 2004 it became a theater space occupied by the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and now houses Chelsea Factory, an event space.

www.chelseafactory.org/


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