The Somerset Apartments is an apartment building located at 1523 E. Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan

Michigan

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. It is also known as the Parkcrest Apartment Building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1985.

Description

The Somerset Apartments are five interconnected rectangular buildings, each four stories, built in a row running rearward from Jefferson. It has 80 units and over 45000 square feet (4,180.6 m²). The front facade is symmetrical, faced with limesone on the first story and red brick above, with arched windows on the first floor. The roofline had a dentiled cornice with a white frieze below.

History and significance

The apartment building is an excellent example of high-quality middle-class residential architecture from the 1920s. The building is currently unused. It has been slated for demolition by the city of Detroit.