Walkabout: Brooklyn’s First Multi-Venue Complex
In 2010, we all have an opinion of the proposed Atlantic Yards Barclay's Center, but how many pe...
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.
Walkabout: The Crescent Athletic Club
Manly displays of athletic prowess have always been popular in most societies throughout time. O...
Walkabout: Amzi and Henry Hill Architects
In 1890, the office for the architectural firm of Amzi Hill and Son was located at 1161 Fulton Stree...
Walkabout: Architecture – The Neo-Grec Style
Brooklyn was growing by leaps and bounds in the 1870s. Most of our brownstone neighborhoods were...
Walkabout: Coming Together in Brooklyn
Disasters large and small, natural or man made, have a way of bringing out the best as well as the...
Walkabout: Brooklyn’s Architects-Frank Freeman
Part of the fun in researching the architects and building styles of Brownstone Brooklyn is in p...
Walkabout: Terra-Cotta Revisited, Part 2
Read Part 1 of this story. Tuesday's look at terra-cotta ornament dealt with natural, brick c...
Walkabout: Terra-Cotta Revisited, Part 1
Read Part 2 of this story. My first post for Walkabout with Montrose, (anniversary coming up ...
Walkabout: A Fortune in Lace, Part 2
Read Part 1 of this story here. Fortunes can be made from many things, and many of Brooklyn's wea...
Walkabout: A Fortune in Lace, Part 1
John Gibb was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1829. As a youth, he apprenticed to a dry goods ...
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