Riverview Senior Independent Living | senior citizen home

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166-foot, 15-story postmodern residential building for seniors originally completed in 1986 as a residential building named The Anderson. It was soon after converted to a housing shelter called The Clinton Family Inn, operated by Homes for the Homeless, which closed in 2015, after which is was re-opened as a retirement home.

It is clad in red brick and limestone. The stone ground floor is set behind a raised front landing behind a partly-sloped granite wall that is interrupted by a pair of wide, black granite stairways. The main entrance is near the east end, with glass double-doors, wide sidelights, and a short transom. To the right is a grey metal service door. There is a matching service door at the west end, next to a narrow window and a second set of glass double-doors. In the center is a 2-bay section that is bordered with large stone quoins, extending up through the 7th floor. These bays have tall windows at the ground floor, and shorter double-windows above, with rough-faced stone lintels. On either side, the brick areas have two bays - both with double-windows on the west side, and the east side with one double-window and a bay of recessed balconies fronted by railings composed of three horizontal metal beams. The windows at the outer bays have brick lintels, and the 7th floor is capped by a band course of white tiles bordered by rough-faced stone at the ends, and with horizontal banded limestone at the center.

The 8th floor is set back at the outer wings, while the stone center section has two bays of tripartite windows (with round steel columns at the outer edges) and is topped by a broad, rounded pediment with a large roundel; the rest of the facade is set back above this. The brick west section has two bays of double-windows, while the east section has one double-window and a bay of small, square windows - both outer sections with brick quoins at the edges. The west section terminates above the 10th floor, while the middle section sets back above the 12th floor, and the east section is split into two halves, with the western one setting back above the 13th floor and the eastern one extending up to the upper roof line, where it has tripartite windows at the 14th & 15th floors.

The top floors, above these setbacks, are faced in red stucco, with a hodgepodge of window shapes and sizes, and a rounded east corner curving back into the far east bay. A tall mechanical penthouse and water tower enclosure rises up from the east end of the roof.

The rear, north-facing elevation has six bays of double-windows, with the western two ending at the 10th floor, and the rest setting back above the 12th (with two of the bays changing to shorter, wider tripartite windows at the 11th & 12th floors.