Hudson Guild - Elliott Center

 theatre, community, apartment building, community center / hall

156-foot, 14-story Mid-century-modern residential building and theater completed in 1968. Designed by Edelman & Webster, it is clad in light-brown brick and concrete. The tower rises from a 2-story base that houses the Hudson Guild Theater and extends farther to the west along the narrow 27th Street.

The Hudson Guild Theater is a compact community theater offering a rotating schedule of plays, musicals, and children's programs. Its entrance is at the east end of the long west wing of the building, where it meets the tower base. There are three glass doors with yellow metal frames, with some sidelights mixed in. A light-green metal panel separates the 2nd floor here, where there are two large plate-glass windows, the east one wider, also with bright yellow framing. The rest of the north facade of the west wing has projecting concrete piers separating the wall into eight bays. The ground floor has short, high-set double-windows in each bay (with iron grilles). The 2nd floor has 2-over-3 windows with horizontal panes, in black metal framing. The piers support a concrete band across the top of the 2nd floor. The west facade of the west wing is brick (without the piers), and has no openings on the ground floor, but the 2nd floor has a high-set band of windows each with three stacked horizontal panes; each window is separated by a thin concrete pillar. To the south the wall angles back toward the rounded southwest corner.

The tower takes the shape of a plus-sign, rising from the 2-story base, but the corners are notched. The north facade has four bays at the base, with thin, grey-painted concrete piers between the bays, and larger, brick end piers extending up the rest of the tower; the bays are somewhat recessed between the end piers. The ground floor is grey-painted concrete, with the entrance in the 2nd bay from west, with a steel-and-glass door. The bay to the left has a tall, narrow window, and the two outer bays have horizontal-paned, 2-over-3 windows. The same windows fill all four bays at the 2nd floor.

Each of the four main facades of the tower have brick end piers, and a concrete grid of eight bays with single-windows recessed within the grid. There are also recessed concrete spandrel panels between floors within the grid. The smaller, angled corner facades each have two single-windows between the brick walls of the sides of the main facades. A tall, brick water tower enclosure tops the roof.

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