Somerset Apartments facts for kids
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| Location | 1523 East Jefferson Avenue Detroit, Michigan |
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| Built | 1922 |
| Architect | C. Howard Crane |
| Architectural style | Georgian, Federal |
| Demolished | 2014 |
| MPS | East Jefferson Avenue Residential TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85002946 |
| Added to NRHP | October 9, 1985 |
The Somerset Apartments was a large apartment building in Detroit, Michigan. It was also known as the Parkcrest Apartment Building. This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. This list keeps track of important historical places in the United States.
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What the Somerset Apartments Looked Like
The Somerset Apartments were made up of five buildings connected together. Each building had four stories. They were built in a line, stretching back from Jefferson Avenue. The entire building had 80 apartment units. It covered a very large area, more than 45,000 square feet.
Building Design and Materials
The front of the building was designed to be perfectly balanced. The first floor was covered with light-colored limestone. The floors above were built with red bricks. The windows on the first floor had a rounded, arched shape. Near the roof, there was a decorative border called a dentiled cornice. Below this, there was a white band known as a frieze.
History of the Somerset Apartments
The Somerset Apartments were a great example of well-built homes from the 1920s. They showed the high quality of buildings for middle-class families back then. A newspaper from May 14, 1922, the Detroit Free Press, said that C. Howard Crane was the architect. An architect is someone who designs buildings.
Later Years and Demolition
By the 2000s, the Somerset Apartments were no longer being used. The city of Detroit decided that the building should be torn down. On November 23, 2013, a big fire broke out at the apartments. The fire caused so much damage that the building could not be fixed. Seven months later, in 2014, the Somerset Apartments were torn down.
