Although single-family housing has always dominated even poor neighborhoods in Denver, perhaps a hundred terraces such as this were built in the city's blue-collar districts. Its ten apartments have basement-to-parapet brick fire walls between every two units in a structure of simple massing and ornament. The two stories of red brick are topped with a flat roof and a corbeled cornice. Ten recessed bays are separated by pilasters, and door and window openings are arched. Each apartment contains a living room and small kitchen on the first floor, with a closed stairway leading to upstairs bedrooms. Built without bathrooms and central heat, the units have been individually remodeled to include these conveniences.
Irish immigrant Frank Hannigan built these units at the time of a large influx of his countrymen. Second owner Joseph Canino, who remodeled the corner unit as a storefront space and apartment in 1935 to accommodate his meat market and family, represented a later wave of Italian immigrants. These two ethnic groups slowly improved their economic conditions and