Plaza Jewish Community Chapel | funeral parlor

 chapel, funeral parlor

4-story funeral chapel completed in 1891. It is clad in grey brick above a white stone ground floor with a dark-grey granite water table. The main entrance is near the north end on the avenue, with sliding glass doors below a dark-grey metal canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To the south the ground floor has a grey metal service door, and the south end has another service door recessed at an angle, a roll-down metal garage door, and grey metal double-doors.

The 2nd floor has 13 bays of round-arched single-windows. The 3rd & 4th bay from the north and from the south are slightly projecting, with pairs of thin Corinthian pilasters at the 3rd floor framing a square opening with a double-window topped by a shallow arch with a central rosette. Brick-and-stone entablatures carried by the pilasters (at the base of the 4th floor) have smaller rosettes above the capitals of each of the eight pilasters. The rest of the 3rd floor has square-headed single-windows directly above the windows below, with brick-outlined rectangular stone panels above them. The 4th floor only extends up at the north end of the building, with two bays of single-windows. There is a false wall at the south end with another two bays, and large, open, stone circles flanked by brick columns above the two entablatures. These frame the lower center area, with only a parapet rises above the 3rd floor. There are small diamond shapes at each bay, along the base of the parapet and at the north and south ends. All of the windows openings on the upper floors is filled by stained-glass in subdued, pale hues, in various modern, abstract designs.

The north facade on 91st Street has no openings on the ground floor. The 2nd floor has two round-arched single-windows, and the 3rd has two square-headed single-windows flanked by single Corinthian pilasters and topped by arches with shell designs. A cornice tops the entablature above the arches, and the 4th floor has a large, circular window of stained-glass that matches the others in design.