The Hampton

 apartment building, 1887_construction

5-story Italian-Renaissance residential building completed in 1887. Designed by Thom & Wilson, it was intended to house 10 families. Built of red brick with stone trim, this building has a stone basement and first floor. The windows at the first floor display the blind horseshoe arches over the upper halves of the windows which became so popular in the 1890s. They have slim, wedgelike keystones with Italian Renaissance ornament such as is to be found in the pilaster panels at the corners of the building. The second floor windows have flush lintels set on horizontal band courses which also serve as impost blocks. There are cornices at the base of the 3rd and 5th floors, and a stepped brick roof parapet. The central section of the top three floors are projected slightly forward, with the center window framed by carved panels at the 3rd & 4th floors.