Chelsea 19 (New York City, New York)

 condominium, 1910_construction

134-foot, 10-story residential building completed in 1910. Designed by Henry Davidson as a mercantile/industrial building, it is clad in limestone, four bays wide. The ground floor is painted white, with rustications on the main outer piers, and lighter rustication on the middle piers. The bays at the ground floor have been reconfigured. The center two are deeply recessed behind the piers and thin, horizontal wire screens that run between the piers. The recessed walls are clad in grey-painted brick, with three windows in each bay. The outer bays both have a narrow section toward the center that is also deeply recessed, with a door set behind a metal wire gate. The wider, non-recessed portion of the western bay is clad in grey-painted brick, with two windows, and two transom-type windows at the top of the bay; the eastern bay is filled by plate-glass and has a modern main glass-door entrance to the building, with an abstract metal canopy. A dentiled stone cornice caps the ground floor.

The 2nd-4th floors are surrounded at the sides and top by a beveled stone frame. Each bay has four windows separated by metal mullions. Between the piers, the floors are separated by paneled spandrels. The upper floors follow the same pattern, but without the frame and spandrel panels. A tall bluestone parapet tops the roof line.

The western side elevation is clad in brown brick, with windows of various sizes. The building was converted to condominiums in 2002, with 43 units.

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