Walkabout: Montrose Morris, Part 2 — the Commissions Cometh
This is the second installment of the life and career of Montrose Morris, the first subject in a...
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 Architects – Montrose Morris, Part 1
This biography is the first in an ongoing series on the life and career of late-19th-century arc...
Walkabout: Italianates, the Ornamental Imperative
Read Part 1 of this story. A mid 19th century magazine, extolling the virtues of the Italian...
Walkabout : The Italianate Style, Part 1
Read Part 2 of this story. For many people, the quintessential Brooklyn row house is the Ital...
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...
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...
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