143 East 13th Street (New York City, New York)

 store / shop, apartment building

4-story Italianate residential building completed in 1863 as a flat-and-store building. It is clad in red-painted brick above a cast-iron storefront. There is a central entrance to the upper floors, atop a single step, with paneled wood-and-glass double-doors framed by paneled iron pilasters with Corinthian capitals. To either side is a storefront with its own wood-and-glass double-doors between show-windows. An iron cornice caps the ground floor.

The upper floors have six bays of single-windows, although one each on the 2nd & 3rd floors is divided in two by a vertical black metal mullion. The windows all have black metal sills and lintels. A brown metal fire escape runs down three of the bays, and the facade is crowned by a foliate bracketed black metal roof cornice. In between the brackets are reddish-brown fascia panels with dentils.

In 1967 the eastern store was leased to Cornell Edwards, who established his Flower Stall in the space. The shop would be a fixture in the neighborhood for decades, and Edwards was still running the Flower Stall in 2011 when he died at the age of 79. In the meantime, the western shop was home to Melissa Howard's Stock Vintage. Founded in 2006, the store sells vintage men's clothing and accessories dating from the turn of the last century through the 1970s. The shop still operates from the space. The other storefront is now occupied by Heven creative glass studio.