Building of the Day: 1574 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Row House Address: 1574 Bergen Street, between Utica and Troy Avenues Neighborhood: Weeksville section of Crown Heights Year Built: Unknown Architectural Style: Italianate Architect: Unknown Landmarked: No The story: These attractive clapboard, or in this case, shingled, houses appear here and there throughout Brownstone Brooklyn. I always enjoy…
Brooklyn, one building at a time.
Name: Row House
Address: 1574 Bergen Street, between Utica and Troy Avenues
Neighborhood: Weeksville section of Crown Heights
Year Built: Unknown
Architectural Style: Italianate
Architect: Unknown
Landmarked: No
The story: These attractive clapboard, or in this case, shingled, houses appear here and there throughout Brownstone Brooklyn. I always enjoy seeing them, as they represent rare survivors, and are more often than not, the first houses in neighborhoods to be covered over with aluminum or vinyl siding, asbestos siding or some kind of stone faced stucco. They often lose their cornices, hooded window cases, and porches. Rarely will you find an intact row of them, usually, like here, there will be one, perhaps two in the row that are whole, or almost so. This particular house is in the Weeksville section of Crown Heights, far to the east of the wealthy and upper middle class area near Nostrand Avenue. These were always working class homes. This one is remarkably original, with fish scale shingles, and mostly intact brackets and dentils on the window frames. The porch is also intact, featuring standard catalog issue, turned wood gingerbread, in great shape. These are classic vernacular Brooklyn houses, often pooh-poohed for their ordinary-ness, but a vital part of the pantheon of Brooklyn architecture.
(Photo: Property Shark)
Mr. Gray;
1) I agree.
2) I appreciate your wry sense of humor.
Dear Carrrol:
MM has made this a very, very fine forum. You overrate my qualifications, but I cannot think of anyone who couldn’t learn something here. Especially me.
I am sure even Benson would agree. Hey, wait a minute: is that the real Benson?
Christopher
WOW…THE Christopher Gray is on Brownstoner? Now if only Barry Lewis would sign up…
Thank you so much Minard, Greenwood, and Christopher for the info.
Sung to the old tune “We get letters”:
“I got issues,
lots and lots of issues!”
Benson, you’ve got issues. Only you could take a statement about someone liking clapboard frames and hoping more people restore them, and make it into a class war issue. You are the one always assuming that the average Joe isn’t care about preservation. Most of the preservationists I know ARE average Joes, myself among them. And then try to pull NOP into it, a guy who only writes about his memories of Brooklyn, his middle class memories about Brooklyn, at that.
And Bxgrl is right, more people than not defended the pastor in this last church bruhaha, and even so, as you are entitled to your opinion, so too is Minard. His opinions are his opinions, as are Mr. B’s. They have never appointed themselves as spokespeople for the preservation movement, only as private citizens.
Preservation is not hindering growth. That is absolute nonsense.
“In my way of thinking, people who call pastors of small struggling churches “liars”, sell-outs” and “frauds” without even allowing them the chance to tell their side of the story are obnoxious.”
And MM was not the one to say that, nor is that a consensus of preservation minded people. Almost everyone spoke out against the insults to the pastor. How about not condemning everyone for the words of a few?
As for having fun keeping the heat on people who (in your opinion) deserve it,- who died and made you High Poobah judge?
Yeah, that damned guy, Lefevre, LaFever, LeFavre, whatever it is – who the hell can figure out how to spell his name??? There isn’t even anyone with that name in the phone book.
c
Mr. Gray;
You may think I’m obnoxious. I’ll take that comment under advisement.
In my way of thinking, people who call pastors of small struggling churches “liars”, sell-outs” and “frauds” without even allowing them the chance to tell their side of the story are obnoxious.
Yes, I do have fun keeping the heat on people who deserve it (such as Minard and Mr. B.).