The Hamilton

 apartment building, senior citizen center

171-foot, 15-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1919 as an apartment hotel. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in reddish-brown brick above a 2-story white-painted limestone base with a grey granite water table. The base has a central entrance flanked by paired, 2-story fluted pilasters surmounted by an entablature with garlands and roundels, and crowned by a rounded pediment. There are glass double-doors at the ground floor, covered by a rounded, blue canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk, and a plate-glass window at the 2nd floor. There are four bays to the west, with double-windows at the middle ones, and wide single-windows at the ends, except for the 2nd bay from the west on the ground floor, which has a secondary entrance with a glass-and-metal door breaking the water table, and a small window, both under a small blue canopy. There are four matching bays to the east, except that the secondary entrance here is in the west-middle bay, and is has glass double-doors. There is a small 5-story extra section at the east end, with two more bays of single-windows (and a metal-door service entrance on the ground floor at the end bay).

Above the main entrance, the upper floors are divided into two wings of four bays by a narrow, central light well. Like on the base, the middle bays have double-windows, and the end bays have wide single-windows. The windows all have simple stone sills and there are geometric brick spandrels between the floors in each bay. The rear wall of the light well has a bay of paired windows, and there is one bay of single-windows at the rear of both side walls. The short, 5-story, 2-bay end section at the east is capped by a brick parapet with stone band courses. The two main wings have stone band courses across the bottom and top of the 9th floor, where the piers all are edged in stone. There are setbacks above the floor, capped by stone copings.

The rest of the facade is set back from the lower floors, slightly narrower, with five bays of paired windows in the middle and end bays of wide single-windows. The top floor has stone band courses at the top and bottom, piers edged in stone, and stone pilasters between the paired windows. The roof line is marked by a modillioned stone cornice.

The building contains 175 apartment units for senior citizens, as well as the Hamilton Senior Center on the ground floor.