Hibbard Apartment Building

The Hibbard Apartments Building is a multi-unit, high-rise building, notable in its handsome design and for its association with architect Robert O. Derrick. The building was designed in 1924 by Derrick, whose best-known works are the full-scale Georgian replicas which house the Henry Ford Museum (1929). He was adept in various historical styles--especially Tudor and vernacular French. The Classical-Renaissance details of the Hibbard Apartments resemble those on the facade of the Jennings Memorial Hospital, also on Jefferson Avenue and designed by Derrick.

Located at the northeast corner of East Jefferson Avenue and Hibbard Avenue, the Hibbard Apartment Building is a rectangular, nine-story, forty-unit structure. Its facade, faced on the lowest two stories with limestone and elsewhere with red brick, is decorated with Renaissance details such as balustrades, pediments, and quoins--all executed in limestone. Paira:19o'lags embellish the facade just below the cornice.