Hancock Apartment Building
A landmark in Springfield, in the middle of things: 47 places within a five-minute walk. One of 101 history & landmarks in Springfield.















On the National Register since 2015

Hancock Apartment Building
Hancock Apartment Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Sep 29, 2015. It is significant for its architecture, town planning and social history at the local level.
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 l…
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