Building of the Day: 1001 Bushwick Avenue
The BOTD is a no-frills look at interesting structures of all types and from all neighborhoods. There will be old, new, important, forgotten, public, private, good and bad. Whatever strikes our fancy. We hope you enjoy. Address: 1001 Bushwick Avenue, corner of Grove Street Name: Charles Lindemann House Neighborhood: Bushwick Year Built: 1890 Architectural Style:…
The BOTD is a no-frills look at interesting structures of all types and from all neighborhoods. There will be old, new, important, forgotten, public, private, good and bad. Whatever strikes our fancy. We hope you enjoy.
Address: 1001 Bushwick Avenue, corner of Grove Street
Name: Charles Lindemann House
Neighborhood: Bushwick
Year Built: 1890
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Architects: Unknown
Landmarked: No
This large Queen Anne house was built for Charles Lindemann, a wealthy member of Bushwick’s large German community. I could not find out if he was a brewer, like many of the other members of Bushwick’s elite, or in some other business.
He was an officer in Brooklyn’s German Republican Club, as far back as 1878. The house was recently restored, and is in much better shape than before, although I have to quibble that the stucco was overlaid over the original brick and stone with a heavy hand, obscuring some of the original details.
Still, the overall beauty of the house is still intact, the turret and porch, and other architectural features still magnificent, and all around, a great job preserving one of the best mansions on this mansion laden stretch of Bushwick. I wonder what the inside looks like…
[Photos by Suzanne Spellen]
I wonder if it ever would be possible to landmark the area. I guess talk about a case of the cow having long past escaped the barn…
mpoar, I hear you, most of Bushwick ave seems to be in a state of dereliction but there are some great places. The very old dutch church there is great too, even if the spire is a little awry.
It’s sad how altered Bushwick is.
There’s a very beautiful series of brick row houses with an amazing end house and lots of terra cotta and stained glass around Gates or so on Bushwick Ave. There are also one or two perfectly intact wooden houses here or there off Bushwick but most everything is covered in siding.
Althought the place is much cleaned up, the application of stucco destroyed or covered alot of original details that were still intact a couple of years ago. Had this house been in Flatbush, there is a chance it might have been restored. In Bushwick this is about the best one can expect.
Mopar, it’s got three units, probably one on each floor. That’s a pretty big apartment. The top floor one must have very cool sloped ceilings and garrets, with all those dormers.
I bet there’s a jacuzzi in there.
Looks like roommates live there, not sure.
Oh this crazy place! Sometimes I see it all lit up at night.
Minard, I think you are right on choice of materials. I just checked on Property Shark, and 2006 photos show white clapboard and shingles wherever cream stucco is now.