Apthorp Motorcar Co. Garage | Beaux-Arts (architecture), parking garage

 Beaux-Arts (architecture), parking garage

6-story Beaux-Arts parking garage completed in 1906 for the Apthorp Motorcar Company. Designed by Clement Benjamin Brun, it was built as a combination garage and auto dealership for the Palace Garage Company, and has storage space for 115 cars. The garage was named after Charles Ward Apthorp, a wealthy landowner on Manhattan’s West Side who owned the land where the garage was built. The original operator of the garage was Morris Segall, president of the Palace Garage Company and later the Apthorp Garage Company.

is clad in off-white brick, painted beige at the ground floor. There are three bays, with large openings in the eastern two; the west bay is filled-in. Paneled stone pilasters, also painted, front the piers between the bays at the ground floor. They carry an entablature over the middle bay that has a lion head on each end, and a panel in the middle reading "APTHORP MOTORCAR CO.", surmounted by a dentiled cornice and a cartouche.

On the upper floors the piers have slightly-projecting rows of regular brick quoins, and the large bays have black metal-framed windows - double-windows in the outer bays and triple-windows in the center bay. The brick spandrels between floors have outlined panels in brick, and there are stone sills and lintels.

The Apthorp Motor Car Company was dissolved in 1911, but the Apthorp Garage Company continued operating, and owned this garage until 1981. In 2012, it was bought by the Central Parking System.