An eleven-story apartment tower faced in two tones of glazed brick, tan and dark brown, laid in a dense checkerboard that covers every wall. White terra cotta supplies the ornament. At the top, the parapet steps up into crenellated piers capped in white coping and scrolled brackets, with grotesque heads at the corners. Square terra cotta panels carved with large rosettes sit over the paired windows of the outer bays, and the center bay rises between pinnacled piers faced in stacked floral medallions, above a small iron balcony and a Tudor-arched window.
The Hutcheson Arms went up on South Grand Boulevard in the 1920s as an eleven-story apartment building; sources date it to ca. 1925 and ca. 1928, and its architect and the origin of its name have not been documented. It kept its original manual elevator, with an inner gate, into the 2010s. Village Green, a national management company, took over the building in 2011, made improvements, and installed a new elevator soon after. It is now leased together with the Saum at 1919 South Grand as "Hutch and Saum."
