This handsome, 39-story building at 56 West 26th Street in Chelsea was erected in 2001 and has 387 rental apartments.

Its lower four floors contain 83,000 square feet of retail and office space.

The building, which replaced the Coogan Building that was erected in the 1870s as a racquet club and served for decades as loft space, has a very attractive mid-block plaza.

It was developed by the Witkoff Group of Manhattan and the Adell Corporation of Greenwich, Conn. That partnership had three parcels at this former Flower District location that was rezoned for residential uses in 1995 and it sold one of them and had plans to develop the third.

This burnt orange-and-red-brick building has plum brick and ornamental stone accents and was designed by Costas Kondylis.

It has rounded corners and many of the apartments are wide and boxy and have u-shaped kitchens or kitchen islands.

There are many bay windows and some corner apartments have pie-shaped living rooms.

The building, which is also known as 776 Sixth Avenue, is known as the Capitol at Chelsea.

It has a canopied entrance, a doorman, a garage, a health club, a roof deck and larger apartments have washers and dryers.