Chelsea Antiques Building

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150-foot, 12-story residential building completed in 1914. Designed by Max Zipkes as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in limestone and white terra-cotta tile. The 2-story base, capped by a cornice with an egg-and-dart molding, has a wide arch at the center of the ground floor, flanked by two smaller arches. The western one is the main entrance, with new silver metal-and-glass doors, while the eastern one has a service entrance with black metal doors and original transom. The larger outer stone piers are coursed, and sit on granite bases, as do the two smaller intermediate piers. The large center arch has a storefront entrance with wooden doors, flanked by show windows. An oversized keystone crowns the arch, with an egg-and-dart molding below the 2nd-floor windows, of which there are three in each bay, divided by dark-brown metal mullions. A stone pilaster separates the two bays, and the outer piers are decorated by triglyph brackets at the top of the 2nd floor.

The upper floors, faced completely in white terra-cotta, have bands of carved ornament on the outer piers. Each floor also has two bays of three windows, divided by metal mullions. The spandrel panels are decorated with foliate patterns. A cornice with egg-and-dart molding caps the 10th floor, where the outer piers have cartouches capping the tops of the ornamental bands. In addition to the spandrels, the wide outer piers are also carved with foliate patterns at the top two floors. The outer piers rise slightly above a small cornice at the roof line, while in the middle a parapet angles up toward the center where it is flat.

The eastern elevation is clad in red brick, with five bays of windows toward the rear of the building. Remnants of painted signs remain toward the front, where there is a short return of the white terra-cotta tiles from the front facade.