Walkabout with Montrose: Parlez-vous French Flat?
This is the third piece in a series about the development of multi-unit housing in Brooklyn. The Fre...
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: Ooooh, Baby, Baby
Every week our guest blogger Montrose Morris serves up a dose of Brooklyn architecture for our r...
Walkabout with Montrose: Tenement Living
This is the second in a series of pieces about the development of multiple-unit housing in Brook...
Walkabout with Montrose: Nature Boy
Human beings have always been in worshipful awe of nature, and for good reason, it's a powerful ...
Walkabout with Montrose: Kinko Houses
This is the first in a series of articles showcasing the different kinds of multiple unit housin...
Walkabout with Montrose: The Birds and the Beasts
Last week we looked at how 19th and early 20th century architects used the likenesses of lions, ...
Walkabout: The Lion, the Stone Carver, and Bklyn
Animal figures as ornament are older than architecture. From the cave paintings of early human h...
Walkabout with Montrose: The City Beautiful Movement
At the turn of the 20th century, reformers in American cities were aware that the great advances...
Walkabout with Montrose: World’s Fairs and White Cities
In 1893, the money and influence of Chicago industrialists and meat packers beat out New Yor...
Walkabout with Montrose: Byzantine Leaf Work
One of the most enduring motifs in pattern is that of entwining foliage. Leaves and vines have been ...
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