The Hartford

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155-foot, 13-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1936. Designed by Parker & Shaffer, it is clad in light-brown brick above a limestone ground floor that is painted beige except for the band course and cornice capping it. The main entrance is near the east end, with metal-framed glass double-doors, next to a black metal service door. On the west side is a storefront with a plate-glass show-window and a metal-framed glass door. A large transom window runs above all of these. Script lettering on the band course reads "The Hartford".

The upper floors have wide bays of industrial windows, each subdivided into three double-window panes with three upper transoms. They have simple stone sills and brick lintels. The outer piers end in peaked stone capitals at the top of the 7th floor, where there is a setback. Between the capitals is a stone band with a row of peaked arches. Another setback and set of peaked capitals marks the 8th floor, with the ends of the facade again setting back above the 11th floor, while the middle bay now has a double-window, and a crenelated band course capping it at the 11th floor.

The west facade is also brick, and has five main bays of windows (the middle one with three double-window units like the front facade, and the other four having two such units), with an extra bay at the south end that has very narrow double-windows. This bay terminates at a setback above the 6th floor, with two more shallow setbacks above it. A water tower is visible on the roof. The ground floor is occupied by DeJuan Stroud florist.