The Atelier Building

 apartment building, 1905_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

135-foot, 14-story Renaissance-revival (with Northern Renaissance elements) cooperative-apartment building completed in 1905. Designed by Pollard & Steinam, it is clad in variegated ruddy red brick and beige terra-cotta above a 4-story base of primarily limestone, six bays across. The four middle bays have a section of red brick laid in Flemish bond with random burned headers, with three narrow piers alternating with two wide ones. The main entrance, just east of center, is in a projecting vestibule with extremely ornate Gothic floral ornament that is enlivened by carved human heads, animals, and birds. It has wooden double-doors with narrow, vertical glass panes. The projecting pilasters to either side have gables at the level of the tops of the doors, setting back to paneled upper pilasters with light fixtures. A single-window peeks out from the edge of the west pilaster. On either side of the entry there is a single-window and an end bay with double-windows, behind an iron fence that extends out from the entry vestibule.

The limestone extends up the outer parts of the 2nd-3rd floors, also with double-window end bays. The interrupting brick section in the middle, slightly recessed, has single-windows in the four bays, with the center two closer together. The spandrels are limestone, and stone quoins line the edges of each of the 2-story window bays. A stone band course sets off the 4th floor, with modillions capping the brick section below. There are recessed panels in the piers at the 4th floor, with trefoil patterns at the tops. The end bays still have wide double-windows, and the outer of the four center bays have narrower double-windows, with single-windows still in the two center bays. A scalloped band course with a row of rosettes (some with gargoyle faces) caps the base.

The upper floors have double-windows in the end bays, and single-windows in the four middle bays, with the two center ones closer together. The bays are organized into 2-story groups lined by stone quoins. There is a projecting, black iron balcony fronting the two center bays at the 7th floor.

The 4-story top level resembles a romantic medieval castle gate and is detailed with Gothic pointed arches, panels, foliate bands, and corbels. It is set off by a broad stone cornice with modillions along the underside that have carved likenesses of various animals. A smaller band course tops the 11th floor, lined with rosettes like those below the 5th floor. A pair of boldly projecting pilasters with angled sides frame the two center bays, extending up from the lower cornice to above the the roof line. The window bays at the top floors continue to be lined with quoins, and there are also wider bands of quoins at the edges of the end piers, running up the middle of the piers to the inside of the end bays, and along the edges of the projecting pilasters. The roof line is topped by a parapet with flat-topped gables and a carved panel above the end bays, surmounted by a pinnacle. The parapet rises higher between the two projecting pilasters, with a small window above a shield, also topped by a pinnacle between the tops of the projecting pilasters.

The building contains 35 apartments.