9 Union St Schenectady

 Hand / Seelye / Hunter House
 
This brick with brownstone trim house was constructed in the Italianate style in the early 1850s on a lot that formerly was the eastern side yard of the Jacobus and Maria Teller House at 7 Union Street.  
 
The style is characterized by the elevated first floor, ornamental window and door lintels, paired entry doors, and ornamental cornice with brackets.  Most likely replaced in the mid-twentieth century by the present steel railing, the stoop originally would have had a heavy cast-iron railing with newel and balusters, such as that which can be seen at 1 South Church Street and 111 Union Street.  A change in the color of brickwork on the third floor suggests that it was added at a later date than the construction of the first and second floors.