the hancock apartment building. also known as the schaffer apartments, is a historic mixed-used retail and residential apartment building at 116-118 hancock street and 130 tyler street on the east side of springfield, massachusetts. built in 1912, it is good local example of an early 20th-century classical revival apartment house, built as the city's outer neighborhoods grew as streetcar suburbs. the building was listed on the national register of historic places in 2015.