629 West 54th Street (New York City, New York)

 office building, automobile repair shop, car dealership, commercial building

6-story commercial building completed in 1930 as a factory. Designed by Frank S. Parker, it is clad in brown brick (painted grey at the ground floor). A band of silver-grey metal panels has been added across the top of the ground floor, which has several garage doors. The upper floors have four bays of wide 5-over-3 windows (covered by metal screens at the 2nd floor). The brick spandrels between floors in each bay have three brick X's outlined by brick squares. Across the top of the facade is a smooth band of light-beige stucco with a metal coping. On the north facade on 55th Street the piers are stone, and there are also stone bands along the bottom sides of the brown brick spandrels, which are undecorated.

The shorter annex building at the west end was added in 1945, originally as a factory for Canada Dry Ginger Ale. It is mostly two stories in height, but has three floors at the south end. It is clad in grey-painted stone and brick. The 3-story south facade on 54th Street is organized into three bays. At the ground floor the western two have plate-glass windows, with a set of glass double-doors inserted into the middle bay. The east bay has a garage door with a roll-down metal gate. The end piers are clad in bright red-painted panels at the ground floor. The upper floors have bands of four windows in each of the three bays.

Only the south bay on the west facade facing the West Side Highway rises to three floors. It has the same window arrangement, as do the next two bays on the 2-story section to the north, with red piers at both ends of this section. Continuing north are five narrower bays at the center, with double-windows on the upper floor at the center and outer bays of this group. The other two have single openings, only one of which (the upper floor on the north) still has a window; the others have either metal louvers or have been bricked-up. In the other three bays, the north one has metal service doors below a window, the south one has a former entry (now bricked-in) below a window, and the middle one has vents. The north end of the facade has three wider bays like those at the south end.

The north facade on 55th Street also has three bays, and is very similar to the south facade (without the 3rd floor), with a garage door in the east bay.

The main building is occupied by Mopar Automotive, servicing Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, & Ram vehicles, while the smaller west annex is occupied by Maserati of Manhattan, along with Fiat and Alfa-Romeo.