Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 92

While no where near as badly off as the houses on Officers Row, Building 92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is in pretty serious need of a restoration. What a great building though! It has a pleasing symmetry and simplicity to it that make its year of origin a little hard to pinpoint. The doorway and lintels look straight out of an 1870's brownstone, but the brick composition and lack of other design flourishes suggest a simpler (i.e. earlier) time. We haven't been able to find any information about its history online and are hoping readers will be able to chip in.

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you know what would be cool -- if steiner studios bought or leased Admiral's Row to use as a set. It's so sad to imagine those beautiful houses being torn down.

Posted by: clinton hillbilly at March 29, 2007 11:20 AM

I think it's earlier. It's Federal. But sort of Neo-Classical too. I love the symmetry of a square house like that too. This is awesome.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 29, 2007 11:20 AM

We'd guess 1850's...

Posted by: brownstoner at March 29, 2007 11:28 AM

This really is an interesting building. It looks like a perfect cube. I agree that 1850 seems right although it could be twenty years earlier.
There are many great old buildings in the Navy Yard. Including the coolest Art Deco industrial building in Brooklyn. People focus only on Admiral's Row, which is a lost cause.

Posted by: Serge at March 29, 2007 11:55 AM

In "A Short History of the New York Naval Yard" written by James H. West on February 23, 1941 building No. 92 was built in 1858 and was for the Marine Corps officers. Unfortunately while detail is giving to many other buildings within the yard, there is nothing else for No. 92

Posted by: brooklyner at March 29, 2007 4:13 PM

clinton hill billy, that sounds like a great idea ( for the studio to somehow renovate and refurbish the buildings)

they'd spend millions on fake sets ( think of the car commercials where they want you to think it is NYC, with the fake brownstones in the back...)

they should use genuine old buildings

Posted by: mr peabody at March 30, 2007 12:40 AM

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March 29, 2007

Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 92

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