Editing Hotel Chelsea (section)

== Site ==
The Hotel Chelsea is at 222 West [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd Street]] in the [[Chelsea, Manhattan|Chelsea]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]] in New York City, on the south side of the street between [[Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)|Eighth Avenue]] and [[Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)|Seventh Avenue]].<ref name="aia4">{{cite AIA4|page=181}}</ref><ref name="nycland" /> The rectangular [[land lot]] covers approximately {{convert|17,281|ft2}}, with a [[frontage]] of {{Convert|175|ft}} on Madison Avenue to the west and a depth of {{convert|98.75|ft}}.<ref name="ZoLa">{{Cite web |title=216 West 23 Street, 10011 |url=https://zola.planning.nyc.gov/l/lot/1/772/64 |access-date=March 20, 2020 |publisher=New York City Department of City Planning}}</ref> Seven land lots were combined to make way for the hotel,<ref name="New-York Tribune 1884">{{Cite news |date=November 16, 1884 |title=Two Hundred Feet in the Air |page=6 |work=New-York Tribune |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-two-hundred-feet-in-the/133546452/ |access-date=October 16, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021215830/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-two-hundred-feet-in-the/133546452/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Archard 1885" /> which was 175&nbsp;feet wide and {{convert|86|to|96|ft}} deep.<ref name="Archard 1885" />{{sfn|Tippins|2013|p=26}} Before what became the Hotel Chelsea was developed, a furniture store had stood on the site; it burned down in 1878, and the site remained vacant for four years afterward.<ref name="The Manufacturer and Builder: a Practical Journal of Industrial Progress 1882" /><ref name="Tippins pp. 24–25">{{Harvnb|Tippins|2013|pp=24–25|ps=.}}</ref> The furniture store and the land had belonged to James Ingersoll, who was affiliated with the [[Tammany Hall]] political ring in the 1870s.<ref name="Tippins pp. 24–25" /> When the Chelsea was finished in 1884, there was a church on either side of the lot.<ref name="New-York Tribune 1884" /><ref name="Tippins pp. 24–25" />