Carriage House Week: 409-411 Vanderbilt Avenue

409-411 Vanderbilt Avenue (above) is an elaborate Queen Anne style carriage house and coachman’s residence designed in 1882 by Parfitt Brothers for Cornelius Hoagland to match his mansion at 410 Clinton Avenue (right). The fanciful, two-story building prominently displays Flemish gables on both the front and rear elevations. This motif echoes that on the south side of the related mansion. On Vanderbilt Avenue the gable is articulated by a round-arched vehicular entrance, now partially enclosed, a pedestrian entrance, two segmental-arched story windows, and a multi-paned ocular window. The recessed section to the south also has a carriage entrance as well as arched windows. It is crowned by a gambrel roof with raised eyebrow dormers. Corner brick chimneys rise above the roofline of this charming building, which now houses the Brooklyn Vetinary Hospital. GMAP P*Shark
May 21, 2012 | 02:16 PM