Hoyt Block
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Bancroft-Eddy Building (Hoyt Block)
1870–1871, John Wrege, builder; 1894 upper addition, Cooper and Beckbissinger. 100 N. Washington Ave.
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(Photograph by Kathryn Bishop Eckert)
The impressive, six-story, limestone commercial building designed and built by Wrege of Saginaw in East Saginaw's commercial district provided choice locations for shops at the first-floor level and for professional offices above. The building is ornamented with quoins, delicate stringcourses that link the windows horizontally, and a crowning bracketed cornice. As the windows rise in the walls they change from rectangular to segmental to round arched—all with ornamental surrounds and hoods. The building is a fine example of the use of the Round Arch mode for commercial and industrial building during the second half of the nineteenth century. Today it has been adapted for apartments.
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Location: Saginaw Charter Township, MichiganRegional Overviews:Architect:Styles:no metadata availableMaterials:
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Bancroft-Eddy Building (Hoyt Block)", [Saginaw Charter Township, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-SA16.
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Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 316-317.
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