John Frederick Hashagen Residence

 apartment building, historical building

5-story Queen Anne-style residential building completed in 1885 as an early commission of alterations to an existing flat by C.P.H. Gilbert for John Frederick Hashagen and his wife, when they decided to transform the former row house into an apartment building. It was sold to the estate of E. Holbrook Cushman in 1898, who continued to own the building into the 1920s. The stoop was removed in 1929, and the basement level, now the first floor, became a doctor’s office and apartment. The homes on the floors above were dissected, doubling the number of apartments.

The facade is clad in red-painted brick and terra-cotta above a white-painted ground floor. The recessed entrance where the stoop once was has a black metal-and-glass door and sidelight, set in a simple surround. Two single-windows to the left have iron grilles. The upper floors have single-windows on the right, and a projecting bay with angled sides on the left. The projecting bay springs from a white-painted, rounded base at the top of the ground floor that is adorned with ribbons, dots, and various panels - the center one having a cloud-covered sunburst. Each floor of the projecting bay has three narrow front-facing windows, and a narrow window in the angled sides, flanked to the outside by vertical panels of intricate foliate ornament. The front-facing windows have transoms above them, and the angled windows have small arches. The spandrels between floors at the projecting bay have a variety of panels and other decoration.

The single-window at the 2nd floor (where the original parlor-floor entry was) is square-headed, while the others are round-arched, with the arches framed by white molding and keystone. The facade is crowned by a parapet with a dentil course, and on the right, a row of garlands.