Hancock Apartment Building

116-118 Hancock, 130 Tyler Sts., Springfield, Massachusetts. County/parish: Hampden.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 29, 2015. NRIS 15000662.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Geckler Building
  • Hancock Apartments

From Wikipedia:

Hancock Apartment Building

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.

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