Siegel, Cooper & Co. Stable Building | apartment building

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6-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1895 as a stable for Siegel, Cooper & Co., who leased the building from real estate operators Simon Adler and Henry S. Herrmann. It is five bays wide, clad in beige brick above a white cast-iron ground floor. The piers at the ground floor are paneled and have stylized capitals. The middle and outer bays are wider than the other two, with a modernized entrance in the middle bay. The others have low red brick wall at their bases, and iron grilles over the windows.

The upper floors have narrow, paired windows in the center bay, with wider single windows in the other four bays. Continuous brown stone sill courses with dentils mark each floor. The windows are topped by flush, brown stone lintels that step up in the center, and are connected just below the lintels by decorative red terra-cotta band courses framed top and bottom by brown stone. The windows on the 4th & 5th floors are segmental-arched, and those on the top floor are round-arched. The tops of the outer bays on the 4th & 5th floors, as well as the entire top section of the 6th floor, have white replacement brick. A corbelled brick cornice marks the roof line, above which is a rooftop deck with plantings.

Seigel-Cooper soon outgrew the space, and erected its own building a block away. The firm subleased this stable to wagon manufacturer Ketterer & Kobler. With minimal alterations, the stable was converted to Ketterer & Kobler’s business wagon factory. But, as had been the case with Siegel-Cooper; the 17th Street facility became insufficient. In 1904 Ketterer & Kobler laid plans for its own factory building two blocks away. When Ketterer & Kobler moved out in 1905, John Conboy signed a ten-year lease on the 17th Street property, and operated the building as both a stable and warehouse. In 1928 the old stable building, now owned by the Ascher Realty Corp., was converted to an automobile garage. As the building continued to be used as a garage throughout the coming decades, its façade was little changed. Then in 1981 it was converted to a residential co-op, with 13 apartments.

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