The Chelsea Neighborhood & Historic District Slideshow
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures & Stories
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A journey through the Chelsea neighborhood & its Historic District, along with part of Ladies Mile Historic District (Fashion Row).

The Chelsea Slideshow features information & pictures about:

• Chelsea Historic District
• The "James N. Wells Row" from 1856
• St. Peters Church from 1836
• Louise Bourgeois lived and worked here for over 40 years
• Edward Arlington Robinson lived here until rescued by Teddy Roosevelt
• It was an Art Moderne diner
• A Federal style surviver form "Cottage Row" 1833
• London Terrace - The site of Clement Clark Moore’s farm 
• Find out about "Millionaires Row"
• This is where Jack Kerouac lived and wrote "On the Road"
• Anthony Perkins owned and lived this Chelsea townhouse for 11 years
• Why some people say Santa Clause came from Chelsea and others disagree - Livingston I persume
• A row of Anglo Italianate house from 1860
• The oldest surviving house in Chelsea from1830
• Cushman Row (an execelent example of Greek Revival homes from 1840)
• "Guardian Angel Roman Catholic Church" also known as "Shrine of the Sea" a interesting freize
• The Episcopal General Theological Seminary and geothermal heating and cooling
• Sherwood Anderson, Geraldine Page, Edwin Forrest all lived in Chelsea & more
• The building that was originally: Siegel Cooper & Co. Dept. Store from 1896
• The building that was originally: B. Altman & Co. Dept. Store from 1876
• The building that was originally: Simposn, Crawford & Simpson Dept. Store from 1900
• The building that was Cammeryers "the largest shoe store in New York City"
• An Art Moderne theater
• Five landmark buildings, originally carriage houses plus Siegel Cooper's wagon house & stable
• The Hellmuth Building
• A landmark Jewish cemetery
• A landmark church that was turned into a controversal night club for a while