Manchester Apartments

The Manchester Apartment building typifies the moderate scale brick apartment buildings of the second decade of the 20th century along Jefferson Avenue. Built to accommodate middle-class tenants, the building represents the trend towards the transition of Jefferson Avenue from an upper-class residential avenue to a middle-class area and later a commercial strip.

The Manchester Apartment Building is a four story brick apartment building built in 1915. The entrance is located on the front facade between two brick pilasters, and a stone panel bearing the name 'Manchester' in block letters is above the entrance. Corner blocks at the corners of groupings of windows, brick quoins at the corners of the front facade, and the treatment of the parapet walls above the bracketed cornice with diamond and square patterns are typical of the decade entering into modernism in art, architecture, and thought.