Chelsea Hall Cooperative

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6-story Neo-Gothic cooperative-apartment building completed in 1930, replacing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Designed by John A. Rossi, it is clad in dark red-brown brick above a ground floor of light-colored rusticated stone. The ground floor has three bays of double-windows (except for the third from the west, which is a triple-window) around a segmental-arched doorway set under a Gothic-arched enframement ornamented by carvings of a crown, shield, and two lions with a ribbon reading "CHELSEA HALL".

The upper floors has double-windows in the end bays, with single windows in between. The end bays have eared lintels at the 2nd & 6th floors. The three center windows of the top floor, which is set off by a thin stone string course, have quoined stone surrounds with pointed-arch tops. The roof parapet is crenelated at the sides, with a pointed pediment in the center, all topped by a stone coping. There is an ornamental carved stone panel set within the pediment. Two black, wrought-iron fire escapes run down the facade of the building, which contains 53 apartments.