Walkabout with Montrose: In the Throat of Terror
The word gargoyle is from the French word gargouille, which means throat. A real gargoyle is a w...
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 with Montrose: The Road to Prospect Heights
The hills of central Brooklyn have long been battle grounds of one kind or another. At the start...
Walkabout with Montrose: Historic Bedford, Brooklyn
In December of 1668, permission was given to one Thomas Lambertse to build the first public buil...
Walkabout with Montrose: Romanesque Revival Architecture
Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson is known as the father of the Romanesque Revival style ...
Walkabout with Montrose: A Crown Heights Tale
In 1864, George B. Elkins stood on the wide porch of his Greek Revival/Italianate villa on a newly m...
Walkabout with Montrose: All Things Luxurious
There’s nothing like a Gilded Age apartment to set the heart racing -- or to inspire a swap fo...
Walkabout with Montrose: Faces I Remember
I collect faces. I've got some great ones: Vikings, African warriors, Indian Chiefs, handsome tu...
Walkabout with Montrose: Master of Schools, JW Naughton
In celebration of a new school year, a look at some of the best school buildings in the city of ...
Walkabout with Montrose: Lux Living: Apartment Hotels
This is the 4th in a series about the history of multi-unit housing in Brooklyn. As more and ...
Walkabout with Montrose: Hardware: Jewels in the Crown
Hardware is the jewelry on a building. Hinges, locksets and doorknobs are functional, practic...
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