Architecture 101: Dean Sage House
Photo from archive of the Bridge and Tunnel Club Designed in 1869 by architect Russell Sturgis (who also designed Farnham Hall at Yale University), the Dean Sage House at 839 St. Mark’s Avenue is an excellent example of the kind of “solid, comfortable villas” built in the Northern section of Crown Heights in the post-Civil…
Photo from archive of the Bridge and Tunnel Club
Designed in 1869 by architect Russell Sturgis (who also designed Farnham Hall at Yale University), the Dean Sage House at 839 St. Mark’s Avenue is an excellent example of the kind of “solid, comfortable villas” built in the Northern section of Crown Heights in the post-Civil War years, writes Francis Morrone in “An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn”. The house is constructed with rough brownstone and sports a polygonal tower with pointed-arch windows on the rear of the house. The highlight of the house for Morrone is the “art Nouveau-seeming” ironwork of the transom. We just wonder whether some lucky folks still have the place to themselves. Anyone know?
Morrone’s Books [Francis Morrone]
Henry Sage had the largest saw mill in the world on the banks of the Saginaw River in Bay City, Michigan. He is a frequent topic of discussion amoung researchers of local history in that community. Dean has a street named after him on the west side of Bay City. I have a copy of Biography of a Businessman, the biography of Henry Sage which was in print last I knew. Henry Sage founded the town of Wenona, Michigan which is now the west side of Bay City.
Thanks, Cindy. How interesting!
I think was once a convent but currently a group home for mentally disabled.