The Sweet Life: A History of Candy Making in Brooklyn
Sweets have been with us almost since the dawn of time. Mankind long ago figured out that honey, as ...
Suzanne Spellen
Suzanne Spellen is a longtime Brownstoner contributor. She is an architectural historian, researcher, and writer with a special love for Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and local African American history. She loves old houses, architectural detail, and enjoys exploring new places, camera in hand.
The Story of Fretwork
The architecture and decorative arts of the late 19th century were greatly influenced by the Aesthet...
A Day of Remembrance and Celebration: The History of Memorial Day in Brooklyn
Editors note: This post originally ran in 2013 and has been updated. You can read the original post ...
The Walled City: Brooklyn Heights’ East River Warehouses
The view of Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights has always been impressive, even in the centuries before...
George and Susan Elkins, Their House, and the Really Big Meadow
Imagine Central Brooklyn as it looked in the decades before the Civil War. The neighborhoods we call...
How Brooklyn’s First Free Library Became the Brooklyn Museum
Many of the great museums of the world started out as the private collections of very wealthy people...
The Lost Crown Heights Mansion of a Typewriter Tycoon
Editor’s note: This story originally ran in 2014 and has been updated. You can read the previous p...
City Pride: The Making of Brooklyn Borough Hall
From modest beginnings, the building we know today as Brooklyn Borough Hall is the result of years o...
How Charles Pratt’s Morris Building Company Beautified Brooklyn
A side project of the richest man in Brooklyn in the 19th century, the Morris Building Company devel...
Parties, Gossip and Too Much Brew: How 19th Century Brooklynites Celebrated the New Year
Editor's note: This post has been updated. Read the original post here. For those following the ...
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