We’ve discussed Hancock Street before, in particular the stunning block between Tompkins and Marcy. We went back for another visit on Saturday to soak up the architecture (as well as the rain). The first group of houses we took in was the Montrose Morris-designed batch running from number 236 to 244 on the southern side of the street. Morris, as Francis Morrone points out, was a master of designing groups of different houses that worked particularly well as a unit. In this case, number 236 (which the architect designed for himself) and number 244 (cut off on the left of the photo) had flat roofs that project beyond the gabled and mansarded roofs of the middle three houses (exemplified by the top photo of number 240). The result, notes Morrone, is that they look like end pavilios of a single long structure. More Hancock goodness tomorrow. GMAP