Downtown – Hillsdale, Michigan
Hillsdale has a number of multi-story historic brick buildings, some with elaborate brickwork. This building has been adapted on the ground floor. The upper floor is largely intact. There are three bays divided by pilasters running the length of the second floor. The central bay has a round arched window with the central of three windows slightly larger and the two windows to the side smaller and shorter. A cusped window hood is above all three. The wall surface is recessed between the pilasters to enframe the windows, and further recessed from the frame immediately surrounding the windows.
The courthouse has an elaborate clocktower with cupola rising from a balustraded platform atop the roof. The base of the clocktower is arcaded with two arches and impost between them. The four corners of the base of the tower are octagonal columns with foliated capital. The level above these are clocks on the four sides of the tower, with chamfered corners between clocks each with narrow round arched windows. Finally, a cupola rests atop this with a small bell shaped dome atop it resting on columns.
This hexagonal shaped building has a portico with four columns and an entablature and pediment above. The corners have stone quoins and the upper two brick stories rest on a stone base. Second floor windows on the front have arches with keystone.
This church building has a entrance through the corner tower. The spire has gabled dormers. Large arched openings with louvers are where the bells are hung.
This Queen Anne house has intersecting cross gables and a roughly octagonal shaped bay resting in the interior angle between the gables. An elliptical window faces the street on the second floor of octagonal bay. A base of fieldstones on the ground floor transitions to tiles on the upper floors.
This large factory or warehouse building in the distance has a reinforced concrete frame with strong horizontal and vertical lines creating a grid. The spaces between them are infilled with square shaped windows and brick spandrel.
One last house that caught our eye was this brick house with a two-story round portico, hipped roof, and jerkinhead dormers with returns on each of the primary sides.