Brooklyn is home to both monumental and everyday examples of this versatile material.
Ornamenting Brooklyn: The Fashion of Terra-Cotta
Anglo-Italianate: A Charming Architecture Style That Makes the Most of Narrow Lots
With its low stoop, center stair, intimate scale and rounded forms, Anglo-Italianate is a quaint and feminine building type.
Parties, Gossip and Too Much Brew: How 19th Century Brooklynites Celebrated the New Year
In the late 19th century, Brooklynites had many ways to celebrate the New Year but the ability to participate depended on one's social class.
A Tale of Two Cities: A Children’s Christmas in 1899
The Brooklyn Christmas of 1899 was not so different than today, a tale of the haves and the have-nots.
This Exuberantly Colorful Terra Cotta Building in Crown Heights Housed Bowling and Billiards
The building is reminiscent of movie palaces and popular eateries of the 1920s and ‘30s, when the craze for this style of ornamentation peaked.
These Unusual Curved Twin Houses in Crown Heights Are Like No Others
Tucked quietly away on Sterling Place, these two houses have long been an architectural mystery.
Axel Hedman Designs Something Different in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
This block of houses on Maple Street is truly different, and truly great row house architecture.
How Brooklynites Celebrated Turkey Day
Thanksgiving in America has always been a rather strange combination of festival, food and frolic.
Bringing Music to the Park Slope Manse of William M. Brasher
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.
Red Hook’s Lidgerwood Complex and the Importance of Our Industrial History
Preservation and landmarking efforts have mostly concentrated on residential and civic architecture and not our our rich industrial heritage.
