Manchester Apartments
Historic Photo, sourced from the National Register of Historic Places filing
2016 E. Jefferson Ave. Manchester Apts. East Jefferson Ave. Residential Buildings Thematic Group Detroit, Wayne Co., MI Resource Analysts, Inc 1985 Neg.: Michigan History Division 208 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing View from north Photo 26 of 28
National Register of Historic Places Filing
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.
Physical Description
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.
Architect/Builder
Unknown
NRHP Ref# 85002941 • Data from National Park Service • Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0
Historic Photos
(1)Sourced from the National Register of Historic Places filing
Manchester Apartments — 2016 E. Jefferson Ave. Manchester Apts. East Jefferson Ave. Residential Buildings Thematic Group Detroit, Wayne Co., MI Resource Analysts, Inc 1985 Neg.: Michigan History Division 208 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing View from north Photo 26 of 28
Public Domain (Michigan Filing)
From Wikipedia
The Manchester Apartments is an apartment building located at 2016 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Description The Manchester Apartments is a four-story apartment building constructed from brick. The front entrance is flanked by pilasters, and surmounted by a stone panel with the name "Manchester." The details of the exterior, including corner blocks around window groupings, brick quoins, and patterns above the cornice, demonstrate the rise of modernism. The building contains one- and two-bedroom apartments.
History Manchester Apartments was constructed in 1915. The building is typical of medium-scale middle-class apartment buildings built in Detroit in general and along East Jefferson in particular in the first decade of the 20th century. The building continues to house apartments into 2020.
In popular culture The Manchester Apartments were featured in the season one episode of The Sopranos, The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti, where it serves as the apartment building of Christopher Moltisanti and Adriana La Cerva.
References
Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0
Building Details
- Year Built
- 1915
- Address
- 2016 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit
- National Register
- Listed
- Ref# 85002941