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April 4, 2007

Greek Revival Ornamentation, Off-The-Rack

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At the BHS show "Landmark and Legacy: Brooklyn Heights and the Preservation Movement in America" which we got an early look at last week (and review this morning on Brooklyn Record), we were particularly taken with this poster. It's an advertisement from 1846 for the G.W. Stilwell Foundry, a maker of iron railings, grates and fenders located at 38 Fulton Street. According to the Francis Morrone-curated exhibition, Stilwell produced several styles of Greek Revival iron work that was unique to the Brooklyn Heights market; some of it can still be seen in the streets of the neighborhood today. Another neat artifact from the show: The hand-made map (on the jump) created by local preservationists to document the existing architectural landscape of the neighborhood.
Exhibitions: Landmark and Legacy [Brooklyn Historical Society]
Exhibitions: Landmark and Legacy [Brooklyn Record]

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Posted by Brownstoner at 9:59 AM | Comments (10)
Categories: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Historical

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Can you please stop saying "on the jump"

Posted by: Anonymous at April 4, 2007 10:39 AM

I agree with 10:39
LOL!

Posted by: me at April 4, 2007 10:56 AM

I disagree with both of the above. I appreciate Brownstoner's affection for newspaper conventions--including "on the jump" and writing in the third person. My vote.

Posted by: bob999 at April 4, 2007 11:17 AM

I presume by "Newspaper", you don't mean the Times.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 4, 2007 11:29 AM

okay, is there a better way to express that some of the (verbal or graphic) information described isn't visible until you click on the link below ... and please try to keep it as brief as three words. mr. b clearly has some odd verbal proclivities, but they annoy me less than all the schoolmarms that keep trying to change what is fairly harmless.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 4, 2007 12:24 PM

LOL LOL, leave on the jump alone

Posted by: house hunter at April 4, 2007 12:40 PM

How about replacing it with zero words, it isn't needed. If you are interested in the article you click the link and there it is. Is he really going to be talking about how great a map is and then not show it?

As for schoolmarms, as long as they keep out ugly phrasing like "hate on" and "where is the house at", I'm all for them. Aesthetics extends to more than just brownstones.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 4, 2007 12:58 PM

The sentence, now three words shorter, "Another neat artifact from the show: The hand-made map created by local preservationists to document the existing architectural landscape of the neighborhood," does not imply that the map is displayed.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 4, 2007 4:08 PM

sure

Posted by: Anonymous at April 4, 2007 4:57 PM

I agree with needing some sort of verbiage to tell us there is more information after the click. Some of us (or me, at least) like the skim the article, and "after the jump" is a good, quick way to know there are more interesting pictures to look at.

I read brownstoner like I do national geographic. What can I say?

Posted by: Anonymous at April 4, 2007 7:03 PM

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