Built on a site originally owned by the New York City Department of Housing Preserva­tion and Development (HPD), Salem House is a seven-story, mixed use project in central Harlem. The ground floor of the building includes two commercial spaces and a community facility space with residential amenities that include a laundry room facing a landscaped rear yard. A variety of one-, two- and three-bedroom residen­tial units are located above the com­mercial base. The primary facade is treated to re­duce the overall scale of the building by dividing what is a wide street wall into smaller sections that reflect the narrow buildings along Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. Alternating red brick panels with punched window openings and aluminum and glass window wall panels accentuate the narrow adjacent struc­tures while reflecting the nature of the spaces behind them. Living room spaces sit behind the more open window walls while the more private bedrooms are located behind the smaller punched openings.