This block of houses on Maple Street is truly different, and truly great row house architecture.
This block of houses on Maple Street is truly different, and truly great row house architecture.
Thanksgiving in America has always been a rather strange combination of festival, food and frolic.
Brasher was a major manufacturer of oilcloths and did quite well enough that he could afford to build a fine mansion on the corner of 7th Avenue and Lincoln Place.
Preservation and landmarking efforts have mostly concentrated on residential and civic architecture and not our our rich industrial heritage.
Having the Gowanus Canal at one’s doorway was essential for the delivery of goods.
One neighborhood in Brooklyn has an unusual restrictive covenant that has helped it remain economically stable, racially integrated, and fiercely committed to maintaining its special flavor and history.
Most people love fireplaces. Fires are romantic, nostalgic and memory invoking.
J. Mason Kirby was an architect and builder with a great imagination. Anyone who could design and construct a building shaped like an elephant, several stories tall, would have no problem with the average Brooklyn row house.
It’s the tale of an immigrant father and his son, one a builder, the other a budding architectural talent, and the survival of their shared work in creating a family home.
In 1935, the city announced that they were building eight health centers in various neighborhoods across the city to provide free or low-cost health care.