Hargrave House

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135-foot, 12-story Neo-Georgian residential building completed in 1907 as a hotel. Designed by Frederick C. Browne, it was the second building of the Hotel Hargrave; the north building was designed by the same architect, but with a different styled facade, and completed five years earlier.

The south building's 5-bay main facade is clad in red brick above a 2-story limestone base. The west bay has a metal service door, and the next bay has the main residential entrance, with glass-and-metal double-doors. The 2nd bay from the east has another set of double-doors accessing the Hargrave Senior Center, and the other two bays have tripartite windows. All five bays have sloped, blue canvas awnings at the ground floor, and light fixtures on the piers between the bays. The floors above have small paired windows in the center bay, and double-windows in the outer bays. The base is capped by a dentiled band course.

The upper floors have simple stone sills and splayed stone lintels (with keystones at the outer bays). A projecting string course with a Greek fret motif runs below the 4th floor, with another below the 10th floor. Brick quoins line the edges of the facade from the 3rd-10th floors. The top two floors are set off by a stone cornice with brackets resembling metopes, and the window bays at these two floors are framed by stone pilasters; there are paneled stone-and-brick spandrels between the two floors at each bay. A stone-and-brick roof parapet caps the facade.

The east elevation is clad in red brick and beige stucco, with no openings except for a single-window at the rear of the top floor. A deep light well near the center has its three inner walls lined with double-windows as well as regular-sized and small single-windows. A metal catwalk at the roof connects to the roof of the north building, which was separately converted to condominiums. This building was converted to senior housing in 1975.