Brooklyn Inside & Out

Thanks for acknowledging them. They were pretty generous people. Visionaries.

The Merz's seem to have been pretty active preservationists in the neighborhood before they built the houses, and the lots they built on were purchased from the city at an auction (discussion imply that they got the land before greed-oriented developers with bad taste could). So I think fair to say that they didn't get flack. Here is a link to an interesting talk given in 2010 that honored them. The prose is overdone, but the information is interesting. https://www.willowtown.org/role-models-for-all-seasons

The three houses won awards, and the AIA Guide says they "gave new life to Willow Place while respecting the scale and nature of their older neighbors."

Such a cool place to grow up! Did your parents get a lot of flack when they built this rather than matching the building styles of the neighborhood?