Hancock Apartment Building

Hancock Apartment Building
Location 116-118 Hancock, 130 Tyler Sts., Springfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°6′24″N 72°34′7″W / 42.10667°N 72.56861°W / 42.10667; -72.56861Coordinates: 42°6′24″N 72°34′7″W / 42.10667°N 72.56861°W / 42.10667; -72.56861
Area less than one acre
Built 1912
Architect Geckler, B. Edward
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP reference # 15000662[1]
Added to NRHP September 29, 2015

The Hancock Apartment Building. also known as the Schaffer Apartments, is a historic mixed-used retail and residential apartment building at 116-118 Hancock Street and 130 Tyler Street on the east side of Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1912, it is good local example of an early 20th-century Classical Revival apartment house, built as the city's outer neighborhoods grew as streetcar suburbs. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1]

Description and history

The Hancock Apartment Building is located in Springfield's Old Hill neighborhood, at the northwest corner of Tyler and Hancock Streets. It is a four-story brick structure, with an exterior of orange brick, a pressed metal cornice, and a flat roof. Decorative brick banding joins the tops of the windows, and runs just below the sills of the upper-level windows. Some of the upper-level windows are set in decorative metal panels in groups of three. The building underwent a certified historic rehabilitation in 2014, in which interior features such as trim and pressed metal ceilings were preserved.[2]

The building was constructed in 1911-12 to a design by B. Edward Geckler, a local architect whose works include apartment blocks like this, single-family residences, commercial buildings, and churches both in Springfield and nearby Longmeadow. It was built for Tessie Schaffer & Company, a consortium of eastern European Jewish immigrants. It originally housed a dry goods store in the corner retail space. Many of the early residents were either native-born Americans or French-Canadian immigrants.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination and MACRIS inventory record for Schaffer Apartments". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
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