Editing Hotel Chelsea (section)

=== Facade ===
[[File:ChelseaHotelExterior.jpg|thumb|Exterior detail]]
The front facade of the hotel, on 23rd Street, is 11 stories high<ref name="NYCL-0215" /><ref name="NPS p. 2">{{harvnb|National Park Service|1977|ps=.|p=2}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 1914">{{Cite news |date=July 12, 1914 |title=New York Apartments Little Changed in 30 Years; In Essentials the Apartment Houses of Manhattan Are Today as They Were in 1884, When Philip G. Hubert Designed the First|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/07/12/archives/new-york-apartments-little-changed-in-30-years-in-essentials-the.html |access-date=October 16, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021215829/https://www.nytimes.com/1914/07/12/archives/new-york-apartments-little-changed-in-30-years-in-essentials-the.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and is divided vertically into 25 [[Bay (architecture)|bays]].<ref name="NPS p. 2" /> The rear of the hotel rises to a height of 12 stories.<ref name="The New York Times 1914" /> The 23rd Street facade is made of red brick.<ref name="Karmin 2011a">{{Cite news |last=Karmin |first=Craig |date=July 2, 2011 |title=Hotel Chelsea Set for a Redo|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576420071761802168.html |access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=December 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216164838/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576420071761802168.html? |url-status=live}}</ref> It is grouped into five sections, with projecting [[pavilion]]s at the western end, center, and eastern end of the facade. These pavilions flank two groups of recessed bays.<ref name="NPS p. 2" /> The main entrance within the central pavilion remains largely intact, although the storefronts on either side have been modified over the years.<ref name="NPS p. 2" /> There are several brass plaques next to the main entrance, commemorating notable residents,<ref name="Malbin 2000">{{Cite news |last=Malbin |first=Peter |date=April 16, 2000 |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Chelsea; Strikingly Changed, But Still Diverse|page=344|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/2000/04/16/753173.html?pageNumber=344 |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Liebman |first=Lisa |date=January 30, 2020 |title=The Hotel Chelsea Keeps on Keeping On |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/the-hotel-chelsea-keeps-on-keeping-on/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |website=The Village Voice |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021215829/https://www.villagevoice.com/the-hotel-chelsea-keeps-on-keeping-on/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and another plaque mentioning that the building is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="Newsday 1978">{{cite news |date=November 5, 1978 |title=The Aging Chelsea Still Draws Famous, Bizarre |page=23Q|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|id={{ProQuest|964389533}}}}</ref>

On the upper floors, the brick is interspersed with white stone bands.<ref name="Tippins p. 4">{{Harvnb|Tippins|2013|p=4|ps=.}}</ref> The hotel has flower-ornamented iron balconies on its second through eighth stories,<ref name="NPS p. 2" /> which were constructed by J.B. and J.M. Cornell.<ref name="nycland">{{cite nycland |page=70}}</ref><ref name="aia4" /><ref name="NPS p. 3">{{harvnb|National Park Service|1977|ps=.|p=3}}</ref> These balconies were intended as "light balconies, after the Paris fashion";<ref name="The Manufacturer and Builder: a Practical Journal of Industrial Progress 1883">{{Cite magazine |date=February 1, 1883 |title=Building Intelligence: New York City Building Items Miscellaneous |magazine=The Manufacturer and Builder: a Practical Journal of Industrial Progress |volume=15 |issue=2 |page=32 |id={{ProQuest|88900857}}}}</ref> according to author Sherill Tippins, the balconies were meant to "add charm to the lower floors".<ref name="Tippins p. 4" /> The balconies were also intended to indicate that the interiors were ornately decorated.<ref name="Hawes p. 59" /> [[French doors]] lead from some apartments to the balconies.<ref name="NYCL-0215" />

The building is topped by a high [[mansard roof]]. The central pavilion has a pyramidal [[slate]] roof.<ref name="NYCL-0215" /><ref name="NPS p. 2" /> There are brick chimneys on either side of the pyramidal-roofed pavilion. In addition, the pavilions on either end of the facade are topped by brick [[gable]]s with large arched windows.<ref name="NYCL-0215" /> The remainder of the roof features [[dormer window]]s and additional brick chimneys.<ref name="Tippins p. 5" /> Atop the roof was a brick-floored space, which could be adapted into a roof garden or promenade.<ref name="Archard 1885">{{Cite news |last=Archard |first=Eliza |date=January 4, 1885 |title=A Home Club House: Description of the "Chelsea," the Model Co-operative Home Building – a Slice of the Golden Age Building in the Air |page=16 |work=Courier-Journal |id={{ProQuest|1037447128}}}}</ref><ref name="Tippins p. 6">{{Harvnb|Tippins|2013|p=6|ps=.}}</ref> The center of the roof was interspersed with [[hip roof]]s, beneath which were duplex apartments; residents of these duplexes had direct access to the roof.<ref name="Tippins p. 6" />