Chelsea Lofts Cooperative (New York City, New York)

 cooperative, apartment building

8/7-story cooperative-apartment building originally completed as two separate structures in 1882 and 1909. The taller eastern building was designed by Davis, McGrath & Shepard as a store-and-loft building. The two were joined internally, converted to residential and given a new matching 2-story base across both facades in the mid-1900s. The base is clad in beige brick; at the east end it has a residential entrance framed in stone, flanked by smaller service and storefront entrances. The 2nd floor has a wide triple-window in the center, with a concrete sill and black iron mullions. It is flanked by narrow single-windows on each side. The base at the west end is three bays wide. At the ground floor, the western bay has three square windows with a continuous grey stone sill; the middle bay has a modern black metal-and-glass storefront, and the eastern bay has a window and two service doors - one at street level and one up a short set of steps. At the 2nd floor all three bays have three windows with continuous stone sills. The piers between the bays are projected slightly forward.

The 8-story building at 139 West 19th is clad in off-white rusticated brick on the upper floors, with three middle windows at each floor, flanked by a bay of narrower windows on each side. The 8th floor has footed stone sills and projecting frames, and the facade is crowned by a dentiled stone cornice with a low triangular pediment.

The 7-story building at 143-149 West 19th is clad in brown brick at the upper floors. The piers divide the facade into three sections, each with three segmental-arched windows. A corbelled brick cornice runs across the 3rd floor, and a cornice with deeper corbels tops the 6th floor. A grey-painted stone parapet caps the roof line.

The ground floor is occupied by Chelsea Floor Covering, The Works fitness studio, and Asian Barn furniture. It is currently managed by The Andrews Organization.

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